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KIPLINGIANA 


From   "  Vanity  Fair." 


Kiplingiana 


BIOGRAPHICAL  AND 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTES 
ANENT    RUDYARD    KIPLING 


WITH    ILLUSTRATIONS 


M.   F.   Mansfield  &  A.  Wessels 

NEW    YORK 


Copyright 
M.F.  Mansfield  &  A.  Weitk 


I 


Apologia 


T  OVERS  of  Mr.  Kipling's  work  should  in 
"^"^  the  present  series  find  much  of  interest  rela- 
tive to  this  foremost  figure  now  in  the  literary 
field. 

Mr.  Kipling  is  a  remarkable  man  and  thereby 
it  is  allowable  that  references  to  his  work  should 
be  treated  if  possible  in  a  unique  manner. 
This  '*  Note  Book"  then  is  produced  as  an 
attempt  to  glorify  the  genius  of  this  now  popular 
author,  who  scarcely  more  than  a  decade  ago 
was  hailed  as  **  a  new  star  in  the  literary  firma- 
ment, rising  up  out  of  the  East. " 
The  collection  may  in  a  measure  be  said  to 
be  eclectic  inasmuch  as  it  has  been  collated  from 
various  sources  and  while  the  editor  has  sought: 


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to  eliminate  the  purely  fictitious  and  exaggera- 
ted newspaper  paragraphs  which  have  gone  the 
rounds,  there  will  still  be  found  herein  many 
apt  and  pertinent  anecdotes  and  facts  bearing 
upon  Mr.  Kipling's  notably  strong  and  unique 
personality  as  evinced  by  the  character  and 
popularity  of  his  work. 

These  fugitive  paragraphs  would  in   many  in- 
stances possibly  be  lost  entirely  were  they 
not  embodied  in  the   present  series  of 
**  Notes"  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that 
the  enthusiasts  and  collectors  of 
Kiplingiana    will    derive    as 
much    gratification    from 
the  perusal  of  the  same, 
as  has  the  editor  in 
the  compiling 
of  it. — 
Ed. 


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A  Brief  Biography  to  Date. 

RuDYARD  Kipling  was  born  in  Bombay,  India, 
30th  December,  1865,  the  son  of  John  Lock- 
wood  Kipling  and  Alice  McDonald.  He  was 
educated  in  the  United  Services  College  at 
Westward  Ho  in  North  Devon. 
After  his  school-days  he  returned  to  India,  and 
took  up  his  labors  in  a  sub-editorial  capacity 
on  "The  Civil  and  Military  Gazette"  at 
Lahore,  continuing  this  work  in  one  form  or 
another  from  1882  to  1889,  during  which 
time  amid  a  multiplicity  of  office  duties  he 
found  the  opportunity  to  write  some  of  the 
verses  and  tales  which  are  now  to  be  found  in 
the  "Departmental  Ditties,"  "  Soldiers  Three" 
and  "Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills,"  The  first 
when  he  was  but  twenty-one  years  of  age. 
Briefly  then  his  career  may  be  said  to  have  been 
made  with  the  publishing  of  his  first  book,  or 
rather  the  first  of  which  he  was  the  sole  author, 
"Departmental  Ditties  in  1886."  Of  this 
book  Sir  William  Hunter,  then  Chancellor 
of  Bombay  University  said,  writing  in  the 
London  Academy  : —  "  The   book    gives  pro- 


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mise    or"    a    new    lirerarv     star     rising    in    the 
East." 

Then  followed  rapidly  "  Soldiers  Three," 
"The  Gadsbys,"  "In  Black  and  White," 
"  Under  the  Deodars,"  "  The  Phantom  'Rick- 
shaw," "Wee  Willie  Winkie." 
These  were  ail  issued  by  Indian  publishing  houses 
before  he  finally  left  the  East  in  1889  on  his  re- 
turn to  England,  \'ia  China,  Japan  and  America. 
His  work  in  India  evinced  a  strong  individualit}', 
and  his  many  duties,  working  side  by  side  with 
the  native,  gave  him  the  keen  insight  into 
nature  which  only  those  who  are  workers  them- 
selves can  ever  hope  to  attain.  He  was  not  a 
theorist,  but  a  practical  hand,  and  if  his  reading 
public  was  at  first  limited,  he  certainly  catered 
with  a  skilfiil,  artful  power,  as  well  as  infiising 
into  the  subject  matter  the  wisdom  and  keenness 
of  a  strong  and  vigorous  mind. 
In  1 89 1  he  collaborated  with  Walcott  Balestier 
in  *'  The  Naulahka  "  which  was  published  in 
London  in  1892,  during  which  year  he 
married  Miss  Caroline  Starr  Balestier,  the  sister 
of  his  collaborator. 
His  later  work,  of  which  more  in  future  pages. 


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is  one  long  record  of  successes.  Mr.  Kipling 
is  said,  properly  enough,  to  be  of  a  modest 
retiring  disposition,  and  it  is  not  intended  herein 
to  deal  vAxh.  those  personalities  of  his  life  in 
which  the  public  has  no  moral  or  legitimate 
interest.  Enough  that  this  slight  series  of  appre- 
ciations should  deal  with  such  facts  of  public 
interest  as  may  be  properly  accredited,  and  such 
report  as  may  have  a  possible  bearing  upon  the 
work  of  the  head  and  hand  of  this  strong  man. 
From  1892  to  1896  Mr.  Kipling  lived  chiefly 
in  the  United  States — building  himself  a  home 
among  the  Green  Mountains,  at  Brattleboro,  Vt. 
— residing  there  until  he  returned  to  England. 
In  I  898  he  sailed  for  Cape  Town,  South  Africa, 
accompanied  by  his  family,  returning  during  the 
autumn,  and  taking  up  his  abode  at  Rottingdean 
on  the  south  coast  of  England.  His  next 
journev  was  to  America  in  Januar)',  1899,  en 
route  it  was  said  to  Mexico. 
Mr.  Kipling,  it  is  thus  seen,  has  been  a 
great  traveller,  and  it  is  by  this  means  possibly 
that  the  full  vigor  of  a  naturally  strong  and 
virile  brain  gives  out  only  its  best ;  we  have  in 
Mr.  Kipling,  as  evinced   by  his  works,  a  true 


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exemplification  of  the  virtue  of  turning  occa- 
sionally to  **  fresh  fields  and  pastures  new  "  for 
one's  inspiration,  a  circumstance  which  is  self- 
evident  when  one  recounts  the  variety  and 
scope  of  his  recent  work. 

A   Biographical  Note. 

*'  Three  different  nationalities  have  gone  to 
make  up  Kipling's  complicated  nature.  On  the 
mother's  side  Scotland  and  Ireland,  on  the  father's 
England,  though  400  years  ago  the  Kiplings 
came  from  Holland.  There  is  likewise  a  mix- 
ture of  two  different  temperaments  in  the 
genealogy.  Both  grandfathers  were  clergymen, 
but  the  father  is  an  artist,  and  the  mother  has 
throughout  her  life  told  stories  in  verse  and 
prose.  The  same  complexity  existed  in  the 
early  environment  of  the  future  author,  spent  in 
the  wonderfiil  world  of  India,  midst  the  primi- 
tive culture  of  the  East  on  the  one  hand  and  the 
most  advanced  civilization  of  the  West  on  the 
other.  The  child  could  .hus  see  one  family 
content  with  four  clay  walls  under  a  straw  thatch, 
with  three  earthen  pots  and  a  handfiil  of  rice. 


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earned  by  hard  work,  while  close  by  he  could 
find  himself  surrounded  by  all  the  conveniences 
which  Europeans  find  necessary  to  make  their 
stay  in  India  bearable. 

As  the  child  began  to  talk  he  learned  to  call 
things  by  two  different  names,  and  learned  to 
speak  Hindustani  as  fluently  as  English." — 
London  Dailjr  News. 


A  Kipling  Romance. 

**  In  a  pottery  at  Burslem  in  Staffordshire,  now 
Doulton's,  was  a  young  man,  named  John 
Kipling,  a  designer  of  decorations.  He  was  a 
very  clever,  young  man,  although  somewhat 
eccentric. 

**  One  day  at  a  picnic  to  the  young  people  of 
the  neighbourhood  at  a  pretty  little  English  lake 
between  the  villages  o(  Rudyard  and  Rushton, 
not  far  from  Burslem  John  Kipling  met  a 
pretty  English  girl,  Mary  McDonald,  the 
daughter  of  a  Methodist  minister  at  Endon. 
Kipling  fell  in  love  with  her  at  once.  They 
met  very  often,  and  it  grew  into  a  love  affair 
on  both  sides.      Then  John  Kipling  went  to  the 


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art  schools  in  Kensington,  and  was  afterwards 
sent  out  to  direct  the  art  schools  of  the  Madras 
presidency  in  India.  When  he  went  to  India  he 
took  pretty  Mary  McDonald  along  as  his  wife. 
*'  In  the  flilness  of  time  a  son  was  born  to 
the  Kiplings  in  Bombay.  Their  first  meeting 
at  Rudyard  La'^e  must  have  been  the  pretty 
bit  of  sentiment  of  their  lives,  for,  when  they 
named  the  son,  they  took  for  him  that  of  the 
little  lake  on  the  banks  of  which  they  first  met 
each  other." — K.  C.Star. 

Kipling's  First  Book. 

In  "  My  First  Book,"  the  experiences  of 
various  contemporary  authors,  published  in 
London  in  1894  ;  Kipling  gives  credit  to  "  De- 
partmental Ditties  ' '  as  being  his  first  published 
book — as  a  matter  of  record  three  other  volumes 
appeared  before  the  date  of  the  publication  of 
"Departmental  Ditties,"  to  each  of  which 
Kipling  had  contributed  "School  Boy  Lyrics," 
"Echoes,"  published  in  1885,  and  "Quar- 
tette, the  Christmas  Annual  of  the  Civil  and  Mili- 
tary Gazette,"  by  Four  Anglo-ladian  Writers, 
the  same  year. 


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The  First  Indian  Editions. 

The  following  advertisement  appeared  in  the 
Indian  Railway  Library,  No.  6  : 

NEW  COPYRIGHT  WORKS 
SPECIALLY  WRITTEN  FOR 

A.  H.  Wheeler  &  Co.'s  Indian 
Railway  Library 

1. — **  Soldiers  Three,"  Stories  of  Barrack- 
Room  Life.  By  Rudyard  Kipling. 

2. — *' The  Story  of  the  Gadsbys,"  A 
Tale  Without  a  Plot."  By  Rudyard 
Kipling. 

3. — **  In  Black  and  White,"  Stories  of 
Native  Life.         By  Rudyard  Kipling. 

4. — "Under  the  Deodars,"  In  Social  By- 
ways. By  Rudyard  Kipling. 

5. — **  The  Phantom  'Rickshaw,  and  Other 
Eerie  Tales."     By  Rudyard  Kipling. 

6. — **  Wee  Willie  Winkie,  and  other 
Child  Stories."   By  Rudyard  Kipling. 


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In  specially  Designed  Picture  Covers. 

Price,  One  Rupee. 

The  above  are  now  procurable  at  all  Railway 
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PUBLISHED    ALSO    BY 

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'♦Letters  of  Marque,"      By  Rudyard  Kip- 
ling.     Cloth  Cover,  Rs.  2.8. 


An  Indian  Newspaper  Office. 

This  description  is  taken  from  *'  The  Man  Who 
Would  Be  King.'' 

**  One  Saturday  night  it  was  my  pleasant  duty 
to  put  the  paper  to  bed.  A  king  or  courtier 
was  dying  at  the  other  end  of  the  world,  and 
the  paper  was  to  be  held  until  the  last  possible 
moment. 

**  It  was  a  pitchy  black,  hot  night,  and  raining 
— now  and  again  a  spot  of  almost  boiling  water 


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would  fall  on  the  dust.  ...  It  was  a  shade 
cooler  in  the  press-room,  so  I  sat  there  while 
the  type  clicked  and  the  night  jars  hooted  at 
the  windows,  and  the  all  but  naked  compositors 
wiped  the  sweat  from  their  foreheads. 
**  The  thing,  whatever  it  was,  was  keeping  us 
back.  It  would  not  come  off.  ...  I  drowsed 
off,  and  wondered  whether  the  telegraph  was  a 
blessing,  and  whether  this  dying  man  was 
aware  of  the  inconvenience  or  delay  he  was 
causing.  .  .  .  The  clock  hands  crept  up  to 
three  o'clock,  and  the  machines  spun  their  fly 
wheels  two  or  three  times,  to  see  if  all  was  in 
order,  before  I  said  the  word  that  would  set 
them  off;  I  could  have  shrieked  aloud.  Then 
the  roar  and  rattle  of  the  wheels  shivered  the 
quiet  into  little  bits." 


Departmental  Ditties. 

Such  a  night,  as  is  above  described,  was  **  the 
kind  of  a  night  '  Departmental  Ditties '  and 
their  younger  brethren  were  born,"  says 
Rudyard  Kipling  in  *'  My  First  Book." 


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**  Rukn  Din  the  foreman  approved  of  them  im- 
mensely, for  he  was  a  cultured  Muslim  :  *  Your 
poetry  very  good,  sir,  just  coming  proper  length 
to-day.' 

**  Mahmoud  the  *comp.'  had  an  unpleasant 
way  of  referring  to  the  poems  as  another  of 
those  things. 

**  There  was  built  a  sort  of  a  book,  a  lean, 
oblong  docket,  to  imitate  a  Government  en- 
velope, bound  in  brown  paper,  and  ded  with 
red  tape." 


Later  there  arose  a  demand  for  a  new  edition, 
and  Kipling's  "  first  book  "  was  added  to  from 
time  to  time  and  subsequent  editions  were  issued 
under  a  regular  publisher's  imprint  and  when 
the  book  finally  blossomed  out  as  a  London 
publication  it  was  as  a  much  fatter  cloth-bound 
volume  with  a  gilt  top.  But  Kipling  himself 
has  said  that  he  "loved  it  best  when  it  was  a 
little  brown  baby  with  a  pink  string  around  his 
stomach. ' ' 

The  first  edition  printed  at  Lahore  by  the  Civil 
and  Military  Gazette  Press,  is  now  so  scarce  as 


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to  command  from  fifty  to  one  hundred  and  fifty 
dollars  according  to  condition. 
A  transcript  of  the  wording  on  the  tide  page,  or 
cover  is  as  ftiUows  : 

No.  I  OF  1886,  ox  Her  Majesty's  Service 
ONLY,  Departmental  Ditties  and  Other 
Verses,  to  all  Heads  of  Departments  and  all 
Anglo-Indians.  Rudyard  Kipling,  Assistant, 
Department  of  Public  Journalism,  Lahore 
District,  1886. 

The  Barrack  Room  Ballads  often  attributed  as 
work  of  the  same  period  as  that  during  which 
Departmental  Ditties  were  issued,  were  not 
issued  in  book  form  until  1892  (London,  Me- 
thuen  &  Co.,)  many  of  the  verses  originally 
appeared  in  various  English  periodicals  notably 
Macmillan's  Magazine,  St.  James  Gazette,  and 
the  volume  included  yet  others  which  then  saw 
the  light  of  publicity  for  the  first  time. 

Out  of  India. 

Thus  it  was  that  Rudyard  Kipling  first  entered 
literature.  At  the  present  day  journalist  is  but 
another  word  for  a  literary  man,  or  should  be  at 


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least,  as  applied  to  those  of  the  craft  who  stand 
at  the  head,  and  Kipling's  heroic  work  on  the 
Indian  newspaper  for  the  value  of  a  very  few 
hundred  dollars  per  year  gave  his  art  the  im- 
petus which  he  later  turned  so  well  to  account. 
His  travels  led  him  to  England,  across  the 
Pacific  and  through  the  United  States,  as  the 
outcome  of  which  he  published  through  various 
newspapers  a  series  of  observations,  or  im- 
pressions, which  might  properly  be  called 
"American  Notes." 

Therein  he  gave  the  free  and  democratic  atti- 
tude of  the  masses,  or  such  part  of  that  body 
with  whom  he  came  in  contact,  some  hard 
shocks. 

Entering  the  United  States  through  the  Golden 
Gate  he  journeyed  first  to  the  North-West, 
thence  through  Yellowstone  Park,  and  Chicago 
to  the  East. 

His  running  comment  was  both  apt  and  per- 
tinent, and  to  express  the  most  and  the  least 
which  can  be  said  in  their  favor — he  told  some 
very  evident  truths. 


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Kipling  on  Stevenson. 


**  There  is  a  writer,  called  Mr.  Robert  Louis 
Stevenson  who  makes  most  delicate  inlay-work 
in  black  and  white,  and  files  out  to  the  fraction 
of  a  hair.  He  has  written  a  story  about  a 
suicide  club,  wherein  men  gambled  for  death 
because  other  amusements  did  not  bite  suffi- 
ciently. 

"  My  friend.  Private  Mulvaney,  knows  nothing 
about  Mr.  Stevenson,  but  he  once  assisted  in- 
formally at  a  meeting  of  almost  such  a  club  as 
that  gentleman  has  described,  and  his  words 
are  true." — ''Soldiets  Three." 


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Kipling's  Early  Books. 

In  prose  there  appeared  in  1888  stories 
mainly  culled  from  the  columns  of  The 
Civil  and  Military  Gazette  (Lahore).  The 
volume  was  entitled  "  Plain  Tales  from  the 
Hills,"and  contained  in  all  some  forty  tales. 
Then  followed  within  a  year  "  Soldiers 
Three,"  "  The  Story  of  the  Gadsbys,"  "  In 
Black  and  White,"  "  Under  the  Deodars," 
"Wee  Willie  Winkie,"  and  "The  Phantom 
Rickshaw," — all  of  which,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  "Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills,"  ap- 
pearing in  Wheeler's  Indian  Railway  Li- 
brary. The  first  four  titles  above  noted  are 
illustrative  of  the  four  main  features  of 
Anglo-Indian  life,  viz.,  the  Military,  Do- 
mestic, Native,  and  Social. 


Suppressed  Works. 

It  is  but  natural  that  a  popular  author 
should  at  an  advanced  period  in  his  career 
devoutly  wish  that  some  of  his  earlier  prod- 


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uct  might  have  died  ere  it  was  born.     It 
is  not  known  that  this  is  the  exact  view 
held  by  Mr.  Kipling  in  regard  to  his  early 
work,    but  the  fact  remains   that   several 
volumes  may  practically  be  considered  to 
have  been  withdrawn  from  public  gaze  or 
at  least  from  the  open  market,  among  them 
"Departmental   Ditties,"   which,  it  is  re- 
called, is  not  to  be  found  in  the  collective 
Outward  Bound  edition  of  his  works.     In 
view  of  recent  light  thrown  upon  the  sub- 
ject,  this  is  presumably  for  the  reason  that 
the 'author  did  not  wish  to  preserve  the 
verses  in  such  enduring  form. 
The  contents  of  the  volume  entitled  "  Let- 
ters of  Marque "   is  probably  omitted  for 
the  same  reason,  and  copies  of  the  origi- 
nal edition  are  so  uncommon  as  to  already 
command  inflated  prices;  and  the '' Smith 
Administration,"  containing  a  contribution 
of  Mr.  Kipling  to   The  Pioneer  when  he 
was   drawing   a  regular  salary,  opens  an 
interesting  question  in  copyright  law— Has 
a  salaried  contributor  no  interest  in  his 


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copyright?  The  story  goes  that  between 
Mr.  Kipling  and  his  superiors  some  dis- 
agreement developed,  and  that  in  revenge 
they  swore  they  would  never  give  their  con- 
sent to  republication.  "  The  tale  has  been 
revived  through  the  sale  by  Messrs.  Sotheby 
of  a  copy  of  the  "  Smith  Administration  " 
for  the  startling  sum  of  ;^2  6;  and,  owing 
possibly  to  the  vogue  which  first  editions  of 
Kipling  have  in  the  United  States,  it  was 
thought  to  have  been  purchased  for  some 
American  collector.  Only  three  copies  of 
the  book  are  supposed  to  be  in  existence — 
two  in  T/ie  Pio7ieer  office  in  London,  and 
one  in  the  Allahabad  office;  and  as  the 
latter  is  reported  missing,  the  question  of 
where  the  Sotheby  copy  originated  has  been 
of  sufficient  matter  to  interest  the  service 
of  a  firm  of  solicitors." 
Of  an  entirely  different  character  are  the 
still  earlier  volumes  to  which  Mr.  Kipling 
was  in  whole  or  in  part  a  contributor — 
"Schoolboy  Lyrics,"  "Quartette,"  and 
"  Echoes." 


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These  are  to  be  noted  in  a  bibliography  in 
the  later  pages  of  this  work,  and  properly 
speaking  should  be  considered  as  early 
editions  merely,  even  though  they  be  in 
many  instances  well-nigh  inaccessible. 

Kipling  on  the  Soudan. 

In  "  The  Light  that  Failed  "  is  given  the 
most  graphic  pen-picture  of  the  fighting 
qualities  of  the  "British  square"  that  has 
yet  been  written.  It  here  follows  in  part: 
".  .  .  No  need  for  any  order;  the  men 
flung  themselves  panting  against  the  sides 
of  the  square,  for  they  had  good  reason  to 
know  that  whoso  was  left  outside  when  the 
fighting  began  would  probably  die  in  an 
extremely  unpleasant  fashion.  .  .  .  All 
had  fought  in  this  fashion  many  times  be- 
fore, and  there  was  no  novelty  in  the 
entertainment — always  the  same  hot  and 
stifling  formation,  the  smell  of  dust  and 
leather,  the  same  bolt-like  rush  of  the 
enemy,  the  same  pressure  on  the  weakest 


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side  of  the  square,  the  few  minutes  of  des- 
perate hand-to-hand  scuffle,  and  then  the 
silence  of  the  desert,  broken  only  by  the 
yells  of  those  whom  the  handful  of  cavalry 
attempted  to  pursue.  .  .  .  No  civilized 
troops  could  have  endured  the  hell  through 
which  they  came — the  living  leaping  high 
to  avoid  the  dead  clutching  at  their  heels, 
the  wounded  cursing  and  staggering  for- 
ward until  they  fell,  a  torrent  black  as  the 
sliding  water  above  a  mill-dam,  full  on  the 
right  flank  of  the  square.  .  .  .  No  element 
of  concerted  fighting;  for  all  the  men 
knew,  the  enemy  might  be  attacking  all 
four  sides  of  the  square  at  once ;  their  bus- 
iness was  to  destroy  what  lay  in  front  of 
them,  to  bayonet  in  the  back  those  who 
passed  over  them,  and,  dying,  to  drag  down 
the  slayer  till  he  could  be  knocked  on  the 
head  by  some  avenging  gun-butt.  .  .  . 
There  was  a  rush,  .  .  .  the  right  flank  of 
the  square  sucked  in  after  the  invaders, 
and  those  who  best  knew  that  they  had  but 
a  few  hours  more  to  live  staggered  to  a  dis- 


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carded  rifle  and  fired  blindly  into  the  scuffle 
that  raged  in  the  centre  of  the  square.  .  .  . 
The  heart  of  the  square  became  a  shambles, 
the  ground  beyond,  a  butcher's  shop.  The 
remnant  of  the  enemy  were  retiring,  the  few 
English  cavalry  were  riding  down  the  lag- 
gards. .  .  .  Then  Torpenhow  sat  down 
and  worked  up  his  account  of  what  he  was 
pleased  to  call  *  a  sanguinary  battle  in 
which  our  arms  had  acquitted  themselves,' 
etc.  .  .  ." 

And  in  "  Fuzzy- Wuzzy  "  Mr.  Kipling  eulo- 
gizes the  Soudanese : 

**  So  'ere's  to  you,  Fuzzy- Wuzzy,  at 

your  'ome  in  the  Soudan ; 
You're  a  pore  benighted  'eathen 

but  a  first-class  fightin'  man; 
An'  'ere's  to  you,  Fuzzy-Wuzzy, 

with  your  'ayrick  'ead  of  'air — 
You  big  black  boundin'  beggar — 

for  you  bruk  a  British  square." 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  23 

Dedication  to  "  Soldiers  Three." 

Zo 

THAT   VERY   STRONG   MAN, 

T.  ATKINS, 

PRIVATE    OF    THE    LINE, 

THIS    BOOK    IS    DEDICATED 

IN  ALL  ADMIRATION  AND  GOOD  FELLOWSHIP. 

Some  Prefaces  to  Indian  Editions. 
Preface  to  "Soldiers  Three." 

"This  small  book  contains,  for  the  most 
part,  the  further  adventures  of  my  esteemed 
friends  and  sometime  allies.  Privates  Mul- 
vaney,  Ortheris,  and  Learoyd,  who  have 
already  been  introduced  to  the  public. 
Those  anxious  to  know  how  the  three  most 


24  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

cruelly  maltreated  a  member  of  Parliament; 
how  Ortheris  went  mad  for  a  space;  how 
Mulvaney  and  some  friends  took  the  town 
of  Lungtunpen ;  and  how  the  little  Jhansi 
McKenna  helped  the  regiment  when  it  was 
smitten  with  cholera,  must  refer  to  a  book 
called  *  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills.'  I 
would  have  reprinted  the  four  stories  in 
this  place,  but  Dinah  Shadd  says  that '  tear- 
in'  the  tripes  out  av  a  book  wid  a  pictur' 
on  the  back,  all  to  make  Terence  proud 
past  reasonin','  is  wasteful,  and  Mulvaney 
himself  says  he  prefers  to  have  his  fame 
'  dishpersed  most  notoriously  in  sev'ril 
volumes.'  I  can  only  hope  that  his  desire 
will  be  gratified." 

RuDYARD  Kipling. 


Preface  to 

"  Under  the  Deodars.'* 

"Strictly  speaking,  there  should  be  no 
preface  to  this,  because  it  deals  with  things 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  25 

that  are  not,  and  uglinesses  that  hurt.  But 
it  may  be  as  well  to  try  to  assure  the  ill- 
informed  that  India  is  not  entirely  inhab- 
ited by  men  and  women  playing  tennis  with 
the  Seventh  Commandment;  while  it  is  a 
fact  that  many  of  the  lads  in  the  land  can 
be  trusted  to  bear  themselves  bravely,  on 
occasion,  as  did  my  friend,  the  late  Robert 
Hanna  Wick.  The  drawback  of  collecting 
dirt  in  one  corner  is  that  it  gives  a  false 
notion  of  the  filth  of  the  room.  Folk  who 
understand,  and  have  a  knowledge  of  their 
own,  will  be  able  to  strike  fair  averages. 
The  opinions  of  people  who  do  not  under- 
stand are  somewhat  less  valuable.  In  re- 
gard to  the  idea  of  the  book,  I  have  no  hope 
that  the  stories  will  be  of  the  least  service 
to  any  one.  They  are  meant  to  be  read 
in  railway  trains,  and  are  arranged  and 
adorned  for  that  end.  They  ought  to  ex- 
plain that  there  is  no  particular  profit  in 
going  wrong  at  any  time,  under  any  cir- 
cumstances, or  for  any  consideration.  But 
that  is  a  large  text  to  handle  at  popular 
pnces ;  and  if  I  have  made  the  first  rewards 


26  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

of  folly  seem  too  inviting,  my  inability  and 
not  my  intention  is  to  blame."     ^ 

RuDYARD  Kipling. 

Preface  to 

"The  Phantom  'Rickshaw." 

"  This  is  not  exactly  a  book  of  real  ghost 
stories,  as  the  cover  makes  believe,  but 
rather  a  collection  of  facts  that  never  quite 
explained  themselves.  All  that  the  col- 
lector can  be  certain  of  is  that  one  man 
insisted  upon  dying  because  he  believed 
himself  to  be  haunted,  and  another  man 
either  made  up  a  wonderful  fiction  or  vis- 
ited a  very  strange  place,  while  the  third 
man  was  indubitably  crucified  by  some  per- 
son or  persons  unknown,  and  gave  an  ex- 
traordinary account  of  himself. 
"  Ghost  stories  are  seldom  told  at  first  hand. 
I  have  managed  with  infinite  trouble  to  se- 
cure one  exception  to  this  rule.  It  is  not  a 
very  good  specimen,  but  you  can  credit  it 
from  beginning  to  end.  The  other  stories 
you  must  take  on  trust,  as  I  did." 

RuDYARD  Kipling. 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  27 


BY 

RUDYARD    KIPLING. 


AHO  Blnoe  be  cannot  spend'nor  nse  arlgbti 
Tho  little  time  licre  given  him  in  tros^ 

But  waateth  it  in  weary  undelight 

Ot  foollsli  toil  and  trouble,  strife  and  ln9t< 

He  naturally  clamours  to  inlierit 

7£e  Everlasting  Future. that  his  merit 

£lBy  baveluU  &oope--a3  surely  is  most  jasO 

TM  City  0/  Oread/ut  IfigKl, 


a.  H.^W  HEELER   &  CO., 

ALLAHABAD 

1890. 

(ALL    RIQBXS  RESEBVEp.} 


28  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

Contents  First  Edition 

"  Departmental  Ditties." 

The  writer  is  indebted  to  The  Pioneer 
and  The  Civil  and  Military  Gazette  for  per- 
mission to  reprint  the  papers  contained  in 
this  docket,  as  specified  below : 

DEPARTMENTAL  DITTIES. 

General  Summary. 

Army  Headquarters. 

Study  of  an  Elevation  in  Indian  Ink. 

Legend  of  the  F.  O. 

The  Story  of  Uriah, 

The  Post  that  Fitted. 

Public  Waste. 

Pink  Dominoes. 

The  Man  Who  Could  Write. 

A  Code  of  Morals. 

The  Last  Department. 

OTHER   VERSES. 
To  the  Unknown  Goddess. 
The  Rupaiyat  of  Omar  Kal'vin. 
My  Rival. 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  29 

The  Lovers'  Litany. 
Divided  Destinies. 
The  Mare's  Nest. 
Possibilities. 
Pagett,  M.P. 

The  Plea  of  Simla  Dancers. 
Certain  Maxims  of  Hafiz. 
The  Moon  of  Other  Days. 
The  Undertaker's  Horse. 
Arithmetic  on  the  Frontier. 
Giffen's  Debt. 
In  Spring  Time. 

"  American  Notes." 

When  Mr.  Kipling  first  came  to  America, 
in  1892,  via  the  Golden  Gate,  he  said  some 
very  complimentary  things  about  the  Bohe- 
mian Club  of  San  Francisco;  but  as  he 
journeyed  eastward  his  comments  in  gen- 
eral were  far  less  favorable. 

Much  criticism  was  caused  thereby. 
His  manifest  truths  that  be  came  home  with 
such  sledge-hammer  force  that  a  certain 
considerable  element  condemned  anything 


30  A  Kip li fig  Note  Book 

and  everything  which  emanated  from  the 
marvellously  fresh  mind  of  this  writer. 
The  subsequent  attitude  as  expressed  by 
the  general  sympathy  during  the  famous 
author's  illness — while  these  pages  were 
being  made  ready  for  the  press — would 
seem  to  disavow  all  such  views  among 
the  fair-minded  of  the  present  day,  who 
perforce  must  recognize  ability  at  its  full 
value  sooner  or  later. 

Andrew  Lang  on   Kipling. 

"I  do  not  anticipate  for  Mr.  Kipling 
a  very  popular  popularity.  He  does  not 
compete  with  Miss  Braddon  or  Mr.  E.  P. 
Roe.  His  favorite  subjects  are  too  remote 
and  unfamiliar  for  a  world  that  likes  to  be 
amused  with  matters  near  home  and  pas- 
sions that  do  not  stray  far  from  the  draw- 
ing-room or  the  parlor.  In  style,  as  has 
been  said,  he  has  brevity,  brilliance,  selec- 
tion ;  he  is  always  at  the  centre  of  the  in- 
terest; he  wastes  no  words,  he  knows  not 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  31 

padding.  He  can  understand  passion,  and 
makes  us  understand  it.  He  has  sympa- 
thies unusually  wide,  and  can  find  the  rare 
strange  thing  in  the  midst  of  the  common- 
place. He  has  energy,  spirit,  vision.  Re- 
finement he  has  not  in  an  equal  measure; 
perhaps  he  is  too  abrupt,  too  easily  taken 
by  a  piece  of  slang,  and  one  or  two  little 
mannerisms  become  provoking.  It  does 
not  seem,  as  yet,  that  he  very  well  under- 
stands, or  can  write  very  well  about,  ordi- 
nary English  life.  But  he  has  so  much  to 
say  that  he  might  well  afford  to  leave  the 
ordinary  to  other  writers.  He  has  the 
alacrity  of  the  French  intellect,  and  often 
displays  its  literary  moderation  and  re- 
serve. One  may  overestimate  what  is  so 
new,  what  is  so  undeniably  rich  in  many 
promises.  This  is  a  natural  tendency  in 
the  critic.  To  myself,  Mr.  Kipling  seems 
one  of  two,  three,  or  four  young  men,  and 
he  is  far  the  youngest,  who  flash  out  genius 
from  some  unexpected  place,  who  are  not 
academic,  nor  children  of  the  old  litera- 


32  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

ture  of  the  world,  but  of  their  own  works. 
What  seems  cynical,  flighty,  too  brusque, 
and  too  familiar  in  him  should  mellow 
with  years.  I  do  not  believe  that  Europe 
is  the  place  for  him ;  there  are  three  other 
continents  where  I  can  imagine  that  his 
genius  would  find  a  more  exhilarating  air 
and  more  congenial  materials.  He  is  an 
exotic  romancer.  His  Muse  needs  the  sun, 
the  tramp  of  horses,  the  clash  of  swords, 
the  jingling  of  bridle-reins;  vast  levels  of 
sand,  thick  forests,  wide-gleaming  rivers, 
the  temples  of  strange  gods.  This,  at 
least,  is  a  personal  theory,  which  may  read- 
ily be  contradicted  by  experience.  But  I 
trust  that  it  may  not  be  contradicted,  and 
that  Mr.  Kipling's  youth  and  adventurous 
spirit  may  bring  in  tales  and  sketches  and 
ballads  from  many  shores  not  familiar, 
from  many  a  home  of  Pathans,  Kaffirs, 
Pawnees,  from  all  natural  men.  He  is 
not  in  tune  with  our  modern  civilization, 
whereof  many  a  heart  is  sick;  he  is  more 
at  home  in  an  Afghan  pass  than  in  the 
Strand."  A.  Lang. 


Ry""R.UDYARD         KlPblNC 


'A  H  W  H  E  E.L  E  R     8c'  C  osr^^^j 


No  A  ii/wM^  ^p^<^ 

Lmp  IAN     RA  [LW  A  Y  \  I  BRA  R  Y^ 


Fac-simile  of  Cover  to  First  Edition. 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  33 

Some  Early   Press  Opinions. 

"The  foibles  of  Anglo-Indian  society 
have  frequently  been  sketched,  and  some 
full-blossomed  incident  of  Indian  life  has 
budded  into  the  three-volume  novel  before 
to-day;  but  we  doubt  if  anything  has  ever 
been  written  about  society  in  India  which 
can  compare  in  brilliancy  and  originality 
to  the  sketches  of  Rudyard  Kipling,  a 
new  writer  who  is  assuredly  destined  to 
make  a  mark  in  literature. 

"  Mr.  Kipling,  who  would  doubtless 
come  under  Mr.  Robert  Buchanan's  ban 
as  a  pessimistic  young  man,  has  a  power 
of  observation  truly  marvellous,  and  as 
this  faculty  is  combined  with  another 
equally  rare — that  of  recording  what  he 
observes  with  caustic  and  brilliant  touches 
— the  result  is  easy  to  imagine.  It  is  true 
that  Mr.  Kipling  lays  himself  open  to  the 
remark  that  he  is  a  cynic  as  well  as  a 
humorist;  but  Thackeray  came  in  for  little 
compliments  of  this  kind,  and  Mr.  Kip- 


34  ^  Kipling  Note  Book 

ling  will  no  doubt  endeavor  to  bear  him- 
self with  becoming  modesty  under  such 
circumstances." — Home  and  Colonial  Mail. 


Of  "  Barrack-Room  Ballads.  " 

"  Some  of  the  best  work  Mr.  Kipling  has 
ever  done;  superior  to  anything  of  the 
kind  that  English  literature  has  pro- 
duced."— AthencBum. 


"Wonderful  in  their  descriptive  power; 
vigorous  in  dramatic  force.  There  are  few 
ballads  in  the  English  language  more  stir- 
ring than  the  '  Ballad  of  East  and  West,' 
worthy  to  stand  by  the  border  ballads  of 
Scott." — Spectator. 


"  Teeming  with  imagination,  palpitating 
with  emotion.  We  read  with  laughter  and 
tears.  ...  If  this  be  not  poetry,  what  is.'  " 
— Pall-Mall  Gazette. 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  35 

Tommy   Atkins. 

"When  the  Duke  of  Connaught  was 
military  commander  of  the  north-western 
district  of  India,  he  would  occasionally 
pay  a  visit  to  the  Kiplings  and  spend  an 
evening  at  their  house.  When  he  met 
Rudyard  he  became  greatly  interested  in 
him,  and  in  the  course  of  conversation 
remarked :  '  What  are  you  going  to  do,  Mr. 
Kipling,  now  that  you  aie  in  India  again? ' 

"  *  Weil,  sir,  I  have  an  ambition  beyond 
the  drudgery  of  working  in  the  office  of  The 
Pioneer.'' 

" '  What  would  you  like  to  do,  then,  Mr. 
Kipling? ' 

" '  I  would  like,  sir,  to  live  with  the  army 
for  a  time  and  go  to  the  frontier  to  write 
up  Tommy  Atkins.' 

"  The  Duke  considered  the  matter,  and  fi- 
nally gave  him  earie  blanche  to  do  whatever 
he  liked:  go  to  any  military  station  in  his 
command ;  and  if  he  wished,  go  to  the  fron- 
tier and  live  with  officers  or  men ;  and  if  at 


36  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

any  time  he  required  an  escort   he  could 
have  one. 

"  Rudyard  availed  himself  of  the  Duke's 
offer,  and  went  off  to  make  acquaintance 
with  Tommy  Atkins.  At  the  same  time  he 
became  a  great  student  of  nature,  and  of  the 
life  and  character  of  the  people." —  Walter 
Paris,  in  Washingiofi  Post. 


The  English  soldier,  as  drawn  by  Kip- 
ling, is  a  jolly  good  fellow,  breaking  the 
hearts  of  damsels  in  the  barrack  town,  and 
then  hieing  himself  away  to  some  other 
station,  to  begin  his  heart-breaking,  ballad- 
singing,  tent-pegging,  and  other  little  di- 
vertisements  over  again. 

Occasionally  he  pokes  fun;  occasion- 
ally he  pokes  a  bayonet  at  a  Hottentot  or 
a  Kaffir,  and  then  thinks  it  over  and  talks 
about  it  afterward.  Kipling's  soldier  is 
certainly  an  attractive  fellow  of  his  class. 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  37 

Kipling  in   London. 

"In  1888  Kipling  had  chambers  on  Vil- 
liers  Street,  Strand,  overlooking  the  Thames 
embankment.  Balestier,  his  talented  young 
American  friend,  whose  sister  Kipling  af- 
terward married,  was  at  the  time  lying  on 
a  sofa,  and  looked  a  very  sick  man. 

"  Kipling  at  this  time  was  all  the  rage; 
people  were  trying  to  lionize  him,  but  he 
wouldn't  be  lionized.  A  vast  number  of 
invitations  from  the  best  representative 
people  of  England  were  lying  on  the  table 
unanswered;  but,  like  his  father,  he  never 
coveted  society  patronage  or  affected  the 
aristocrat.  Mr.  Kipling,  Senior,  was  also 
there,  and  showed  me  some  very  beautiful 
and  interesting  designs  for  an  Indian  room 
at  Osborne  which  he  had  been  commanded 
to  prepare  by  the  Queen.  He  was  then  on 
his  way  to  submit  them  to  her  Majesty. 

"  Kipling  has  but  one  sister,  now  mar- 
ried to  an  English  army  officer  in  the 
staff  corps,  stationed  somewhere  in  India. 


38  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

She  is  a  great  beauty  and  a  very  clever 
woman,  and  has  written  considerable," — 
Walter  Paris,  in  Washington  Post. 


Kipling  a  Moral   Force. 

"Mr.  Rudyard  Kipling's  books  are  a 
moral  tonic  to  their  generation.  As  an 
artist,  there  is  much  more  to  be  said  of 
him.  He  has  caught  the  spirit  of  imperial- 
ism which  is  in  the  air,  and  touched  it  to 
finer  issues.  He  has  taught  us  all  to  be- 
lieve in  the  British  navy  and  the  British 
army  and  the  future  of  the  British  race  in 
a  fashion  to  which,  since  the  Elizabethan 
era,  we  had  been  strangers.  His  tales  have 
revealed  to  us  not  only  the  working  of  a 
strong  and  confident  genius,  but  something 
we  had  never  apprehended  about  birds  and 
beasts  and  the  whole  of  the  animal  world. 
'  The  Jungle  Stories '  are  a  new  and  fruitful 
province  added  to  the  rich  domain  of  Eng- 
lish literature.     Of  the  dreamy  and  mys- 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  39 

tic  East  he  can  write  as  few  men  have  ever 
done,  for  he  makes  us  understand,  and,  even 
where  knowledge  may  be  wanting,  at  least 
sympathize." — Lofidon  Telegraph. 


From   "  American  Notes.  " 

Mr.  Rudyard  Kipling  tells  us  how  in 
a  concert  hall  in  America  he  saw  two 
young  men  get  two  girls  drunk  and  then 
lead  them  reeling  down  a  dark  street.  Mr. 
Kipling  has  not  been  a  total  abstainer,  nor 
have  his  writings  commended  temperance, 
but  of  that  scene  he  writes :  "  Then,  recant- 
ing previous  opinions,  I  became  a  prohi- 
bitionist. Better  it  is  that  a  man  should 
go  with  his  beer  in  public  places,  and  con- 
tent himself  with  swearing  at  the  narrow- 
mindedness  of  the  majority;  better  it  is 
to  poison  the  inside  with  very  vile  tem- 
perance drinks,  and  to  buy  lager  furtively 
at  back  doors,  than  to  bring  temptation  to 
lips  of  young  fools,  such  as  the  four  I  had 


40  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

seen.  I  understand  now  why  the  preachers 
rage  against  drink.  I  have  said, '  There  is 
no  harm  in  it  taken  moderately,'  and  yet 
my  own  demand  for  beer  helped  directly 
to  send  these  two  girls  reeling  down  the 
dark  street  to — God  alone  knows  what  end ! 
If  liquor  is  worth  drinking,  it  is  worth  tak- 
ing a  little  trouble  to  come  at — such  trou- 
ble as  a  man  will  undergo  to  compass  his 
own  desires.  It  is  not  good  that  we  should 
let  it  lie  before  the  eyes  of  children,  and  I 
have  been  a  fool  in  writing  to  the  con- 
trary." 

Kipling's   Best   Story. 

Mr.  S.  R.  Crockett,  the  novelist,  tells 
the  anecdote  that  he  was  one  of  a  party 
including  many  English  writers  when  a 
vote  was  taken  for  the  six  best  stories  Kip- 
ling had  written.  "  The  Man  Who  Would 
Be  King  "  stood  at  the  head — a  story  writ- 
ten before  its  modest  author  had  reached  the 
age  of  twenty-one. 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  41 

"  Naulahka.  " 

Dr.  Theodore  J^.  Wolfe,  in  "  Literary 
Haunts, ^^  makes  the  Jollowitig  stateme?it : 

"Kipling's  affectionate  regard  for  his 
home  upon  this  sunny  mountain-side  is 
expressed  in  the  name  he  bestowed  upon 
it,  '  The  Naulahka,'  meaning  the  very  dear 
or  precious — literally, '  costing  nine  lahks.' 
It  is  the  first  and  only  habitation  which  he 
ever  erected  for  himself ;  here  he  dwelt  for 
some  years,  and  wrought  much  of  his  mar- 
vellous work;  here  one  of  his  children  was 
born ;  and  whether  he  is  to  return  to  abide 
beneath  this  roof -tree,  as  has  been  hoped, 
or  whether  his  presence  here  is  to  remain 
but  a  memory,  the  spot  must  ever  be  re- 
garded with  tender  interest  by  reason  of 
its  association  with  a  transcendent  genius 
and  a  wondrous  literary  artist." 


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A  South  African  View. 

This  brief  description  was  written  by 
a  man  in  Cape  Town  at  the  time  of  Mr. 
Kipling's  recent  visit: 

"  A  small  man,  dressed  to  match  his  old 
pipe — and  rather  fond  of  cutting  jokes  at 
his  own  expense  on  both  scores — with 
prominent  spectacles  and  prominent  chin, 
dark  moustache,  keen,  dark  eyes,  keen  ex- 
pression, quick  movements  and  astonish- 
ingly quick  rejoinders  in  talking;  the  dis- 
tinctive note  of  him  was  keenness  altogether 
— but  sympathetic  keenness.  Somehow, 
one  began  with  an  idea  that  he  would  be 
a  rather  cocksure  and  self-confident  per- 
son. He  is,  of  course,  quite  young;  far 
younger  than  he  looks — it  was  those  long 
early  years  of  hard,  unrecognized  news- 
paper work  in  India  that  '  knocked  the 
youth  out  of  him  ' ;  he  is  ridiculously  young 
to  be  so  famous  and  to  have  earned  his 
fame  by  so  much  entirely  solid  work,  polit- 
ical, or  rather  national,  as  well  as  literary. 


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Nevertheless,  as  one  enthusiast  expressed 
it, '  He  puts  on  the  least  side  of  any  celeb- 
rity I  ever  met.'" 


Of  "  Letters  of  Marque.  " 

Dr.  Robertson  Nicoll,  in  "Literary 
Anecdotes  of  the  Nineteenth  Century," 
says: 

"  It  is  happily  not  our  business  to  re- 
cord Mr.  Kipling's  contributions  to  Indian 
journalism.  Many  of  them  have  not  nor 
never  will  be  reprinted.  .  .  .  '  Letters  of 
Marque '  were  issued  by  the  publishers 
in  perfect  good  faith,  while  Mr.  Kipling 
was  on  his  travels;  but  they,  as  well  as 
some  earlier  articles,  were  thought  by  the 
author  and  his  friends  too  immature  for 
separate  publication. 

"  Many  passages,  however,  show  the 
writer  at  his  best,  though  the  whole  has 
evidently  been  currente  calamo." 


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"  The  City  of  Dreadful  Night." 

As  the  first  edition  of  this  book  was  going 
to  press,  the  Indian  publishers  (Messrs. 
Wheeler  &  Co.,  of  Allahabad)  nearly  over- 
looked the  fact  that  a  volume  bearing  the 
same  title  and  written  by  James  Thomson 
had  previously  been  issued  in  England. 

The  repetition  was  recalled  in  time,  and 
permission  was  obtained  from  the  pub- 
lishers of  Mr.  Thomson's  book  for  the  use 
of  the  same  title  on  the  volume  from  Mr. 
Kipling's  pen. 

From  a  German  Point  of  View. 

Dr.  Leon  Kellner,  writing  in  a  Viennese 
journal  (1899), says: 

"  To-day  I  have  seen  happiness  face  to 
face.  The  first  impression  upon  me  was 
striking  in  its  diversity.  Whenever  Mr. 
Kipling  speaks  and  turns  his  face  full  upon 
you,  you  would  think  you  had  before  you 
a  very  wide-awake,    lively,  and   harmless 


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child;  but  the  profile  shows  a  strong  man 
who  has  not  grown  up  in  the  atmosphere 
of  the  study.  I  have  seldom  received  two 
such  different  impressions  from  one  and 
the  same  face.  The  work-room  is  of  sur- 
prising simplicity;  the  north  wall  is  cov- 
ered with  books  half  its  height;  over  the 
door  hangs  a  portrait  of  the  late  Sir  Burne- 
Jones  (Mr.  Kipling's  uncle)  ;  to  the  right, 
near  the  window,  stands  a  plain  table — not 
a  writing-table — on  which  lie  a  couple  of 
pages  containing  verses.  No  works  of  art, 
no  conveniences,  no  knickknacks — the  un- 
adorned room  simple  and  earnest  like  a 
Puritan  chapeh 

" '  I  much  fear,'  I  began,  '  that  I  have 
come  too  early,  and  that  I  have  disturbed 
you  in  your  work.' 

" '  No,  no,'  interrupted  Kipling,  '  I  have 
done  my  daily  task.' 

"  I  looked  astonished  at  him.  The  late 
lamented  Trollope  came  to  my  mind,  who 
under  all  circumstances  wrote  his  twenty 


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pages  ever}-  day — but  TroUope  and  Kip- 
ling! 

"  He  guessed  at  once  what  had  aston- 
ished me.  '  I  do  my  daily  task  con- 
scientiously, but  not  all  that  I  write  is 
printed ;  most  of  it  goes  there.'  The  waste- 
paper  basket  under  the  table  here  received 
a  vigorous  kick,  and  a  mass  of  torn-up 
papers  rolled  on  the  ground. 

"  Kipling's  movements  are  quick  and 
lively,  and  perhaps  somewhat  ner\'ous;  a 
thoroughly  Southern  temperament" 

A  French  Opinion. 

By  M.  Andrk  de  Cfievillon  in  the  "  Revue 
de  Paris.'' 

**In  all  Kipling's  tales  one  finds  the 
short,  measured  gesture  of  a  strong  man 
relating  great  things  in  a  calm,  cool  tone. 
What  adds  to  the  decisive  superiorit}'  of 
his  manner  is  the  comprehensiveness  and 
minuteness  of  his  impeccable  information 
— the  solidity  of  his  universal  knowledge. 


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.  .  .  He  speaks  of  the  navigation  of  the 
Hoogley  like  a  Calcutta  pilot;  of  ele- 
phants like  a  comae;  of  the  jungles,  wild 
boars,  and  the  nilghai — of  the  hours  and 
reasons  of  their  migrations — like  a  hun- 
ter; of  the  misery  and  crime  of  the  East 
End  like  a  superintendent  of  police  or  the 
president  of  a  charitable  society;  and  of 
beer  and  gin  like  an  intelligent  drunkard. 
He  is  omniscient  and  imperturbable." 


Versatility. 


Kipling  writes  of  soldiers  as  he  writes 
of  men  and  beasts,  and  things  inanimate. 
The  soldier,  sailor,  engineer,  sportsman, 
and  civil  servant,  all  recognize  the  art  of 
one  who  has  lived  among  them. 

His  power  is  no  less  remarkable  than 
is  his  fidelity  to  the  details  of  environ- 
ment and  scene.  He  has  worked  and 
played  with  them  all,  and  his  studies  of 
dumb  brutes  mark  the  observation  of  more 
than  a  mere  writer  of  stories.     As  a  lin- 


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guist  and  a  student  of  Hindustani  his  ability 
is  the  more  notable.  He  knows  intimately 
all  the  various  castes  and  creeds  through- 
out the  East. 

A   Prophecy. 

Mr.  E.  Kay  Robinson,  a  colleague  of  Kip- 
ling's in  the  early  days  of  Indian  journal- 
ism, has  the  following  to  say  in  Literature : 

"I  told  him  (Kipling)  that  a  man 
who  could  write  such  verse  as  his  should 
go  home  to  London  where  fame  could  be 
won;  but  he  replied,  'I  look  forward  to 
nothing  but  a  career  of  Indian  journal- 
ism '  .  .  .  and  further  wrote :  .  .  .  '  Let 
us  depart  our  several  ways  in  amity,  you 
to  Fleet  Street  (where  I  shall  come  when 
I  die  if  I'm  good),  and  I  to  my  own  place 
where  I  find  heat  and  smells  of  oil,  and 
spices  and  puffs  of  temple  incense,  and 
sweat,  and  darkness,  and  dirt,  and  lust, 
and — above  all — things  wonderful  and 
fascinating  innumerable.' " 


BLACK 


\-^..... " 


Fac-simile  of  Ckjver  to  First  Edition . 


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The   Laureateship. 

Previous  to  the  appointment  of  Alfred 
Austin  to  this  office  in  1896,  much  com- 
ment was  passed  in  respect  to  the  qualifica- 
tions of  the  prospective  appointee,  The 
Bookmafi  championing  the  cause  of  Mr. 
Kipling  thus: 

"  Mr.  Kipling  represents  not  only  in  his 
verse,  but  in  his  personality,  at  once  the 
extension  and  unity  of  the  race. 

"  Born  in  India,  of  English  stock,  he  is 
closely  identified  in  his  life  and  works 
with  the  greatest  of  England's  possessions, 
whose  strange  life  he,  in  many  cases,  first 
revealed  to  the  wondering  world;  his 
knowledge  of  the  other  British  colonies  is 
almost  equally  minute.  By  ties  of  mar- 
riage he  is  in  some  degree  American,  and 
his  home  for  a  number  of  years  has  been 
in  the  most  homogeneously  English  por- 
tion of  America. 

He  is  not,  therefore,  a  mere  English- 
man, nor  a  mere  Anglo-Indian,  nor  a  mere 


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American,  but  something  above  and  be- 
yond all  these  distinctions — an  Anglo- 
Saxon. 

"...  Altogether  if  the  office  of  Laure- 
ate be  something  more  than  a  petty  insu- 
lar distinction,  if  it  is  to  become  one  of. 
the  innumerable  symbols  of  Anglo-Saxon 
unity,  a  possession  of  Greater  Britain,  and 
if  our  whole  race  should  choose  its  occu- 
pant, it  is  unthinkable  that  the  choice 
should  be  a  matter  of  doubt,  or  should 
single  out  any  other  name  than  that  of 
JRudyard  Kipling." 


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51 


STle  "Rjuciifvkipple 


emu  U^e  J?nx7nalis  ven/  ^b-oTv^auc? 


taifc  cLn<J  c/ie:>^  no(>oi  V  caTurxovc/i  xh^t  ettTier. 


)iu  nose   ttjwi'  ScjvAs. 


'»ary-  If  ( 


^lat 


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Kipling's  Women. 

A  Bookman  critic  divides  the  women 
characters  of  Kipling  into  five  classes,  as 
follows : 

I. — His  Married  Flirts. 

II.— His  Nice  Girls. 

III.— His  Women  Who  Suffer. 

IV. — His  Barrack  Heroines. 

V. — His  Native  Types. 

James  Whitcomb  Riley  writes  in  the 
Philadelphia  Press : 

"  It  is  said  by  some  that  Kipling  does 
not  write  for  women.  That,  to  ray  mind, 
is  not  true.  He  has  written  of  them,  and 
consequently  for  them,  magnificently.  A 
seraphic  prose  poem  is  the  '  Brushwood 
Boy.'  It  is  one  of  the  most  beautiful  con- 
ceptions I  have  ever  read.  It  cannot  fail 
to  appeal  to  women." 

Of  Chapter   Headings. 

"When  I  first  began  to  read  Kipling, 
my  curiosity  was  immensely  piqued  by  the 


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scraps  of  verse  with  which  he  usually 
headed  his  early  stories.  They  were  all 
credited  to  poems  I  had  never  heard  of  in 
my  life,  and  were  just  such  salient,  strik- 
ing fragments  as  would  naturally  whet 
one's  appetite  for  the  remainder.  For  over 
a  year  I  tried  hard  to  locate  those  myste- 
rious poems,  and  enlisted  half  a  dozen 
book-dealers  in  the  search.  At  last  one 
of  them  wrote  me  that  I  was  wasting  time, 
and  that  the  alleged  quotations  were  merely 
Mr.  Kipling's  little  joke. 

"  In  other  words,  he  manufactured  'em 
to  order,  and  stuck  them  at  the  top  of  his 
tales  for  the  sake  of  the  odor  of  erudition 
they  lent  to  the  production.  I  was  mad 
for  a  while,  but  when  I  cooled  off  I  had  a 
good,  big  laugh.  Of  course,  you  know, 
Scott  used  to  do  the  same  thing,  and  so 
for  that  matter  did  Edgar  Allan  Poe.  Poe 
was  really  the  worst  quotation  fakir  of 
the  lot. 

"  He  would  write  wise-sounding,  de- 
tached sentences  and  credit  them  to  imagi- 


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nary  German  philosophers,  with  long,  out- 
landish, and  impressive  names.  However, 
I  don't  know  why  the  thing  should  be 
punishable.  The  business  of  a  writer  of 
fiction  is  to  create  an  illusion,  and  as  long 
as  he  does  it  I  for  one  am  not  particular 
what  means  he  employs  to  contribute  to 
the  end." — New  Orleans  Times- Democrat. 

As  a  Balladist. 

Mr.  Edmund  Clarence  Stedman  has  said 
that  Mr.  Kipling  is  "pre-eminently  suc- 
cessful in  the  ballad  poem,  and  is  pos- 
sessed of  a  remarkably  clear  discernment 
of  his  own  distinctive  talent  in  that  field. 
At  this  stage  and  as  a  poet  he  is  a  ballad- 
ist through  and  through." 

Mr.  Stedman  refers  to  "  The  Last  Chan- 
tey "  as  "  one  of  the  purest  examples  since 
Coleridge's  wondrous  *  Rime  '  of  the  imagi- 
natively grotesque." 


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His  Hobby— Children. 

"  The  Drums  of  the  Fore  and  Aft "  and 
"  Wee  Willie  Winkie  "  are  considered  the 
best  of  his  child  studies;  the  following  is 
from  the  preface  to  "  The  Drums  of  the  Fore 
and  Aft "  : 

"  Only  women  understand  children  thor- 
oughly, but  if  a  mere  man  keeps  very 
quiet,  and  humbles  himself  properly,  and 
refrains  from  talking  down  to  his  supe- 
riors, the  children  will  sometimes  be  good 
to  him,  and  let  him  see  what  they  think 
about  the  world." 

Prices  for  Manuscript. 

The  British  Weekly  has  this  to  say : 
"  Perhaps  no  one  receives  such  large 
prices  for  his  work  as  Mr.  Rudyard  Kip- 
ling. He  has  contracted  to  write  eight 
stories  for  one  of  the  magazines  next  year, 
for  each  of  which  he  will  receive  about 
;^24o.  This  is  simply  for  the  English 
serial   rights  of  the  stories.     In  addition 


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Mr.  Kipling  receives  payment  from  Amer- 
ica, India,  and  the  Colonies.  This  will 
probably  bring  up  the  price  of  the  stories 
to  about  ;^5oo  each,  making  ^^4,000  for 
the  year.  In  addition  to  this,  Mr,  Kipling 
receives  the  royalties  for  book  publication 
in  England  and  America.  This  will  not 
amount  to  less  than  about  ;!^4,ooo,  so  that 
for  each  story  the  author  ultimately  re- 
ceives not  less  than  ;^i,ooo.  Whether 
these  high  prices  will  be  kept  up  is  very 
doubtful.  If  the  cheap  magazinism  suc- 
ceeds in  injuring  the  older  periodicals 
they  cannot  be  maintained.  It  remains  to 
be  seen  whether  the  public  cares  much  for 
names,  and  it  must  be  remembered  that 
the  papers  with  the  largest  circulation  in 
this  country  do  not  depend  upon  names  at 
all.  I  remember  some  years  ago  Mr.  Kip- 
ling contributed  one  of  his  best  pieces  of 
work,  better  work  by  a  great  deal  than  he 
has  been  doing  lately,  to  a  monthly  re- 
view. The  editor  informed  me  that  not 
one  extra  copy  of  the  periodical  was  sold." 


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Kipling's  Business  Sagacity. 

Mr.  A.  P.  Watt,  o£  London,  the  doyen  of 
all  literary  agents,  and  into  whose  hands 
Mr.  Kipling  has  entrusted  the  placing  of 
his  manuscript,  gives  Mr.  Kipling  credit 
for  remarkable  shrewdness  and  perspicacity 
in  accepting  arrangements  for  the  publica- 
tion of  his  stories  and  poems.  Mr.  Kip- 
ling's product  is  usually  placed  on  the 
royalty  plan,  except  for  serial  rights,  which 
naturally  are  sold  outright. 


The  American  Girl. 

"  Sweet  and  comely  are  the  maidens  of 
Devonshire ;  delicate  and  of  gracious  seem- 
ing those  who  lie  in  the  pleasant  places  of 
London;  fascinating  for  all  their  demure- 
ness  the  damsels  of  France,  clinging  closely 
to  their  mothers,  with  large  eyes  wonder- 
ing at  the  wicked  world;  excellent  in  her 
own  place  and  to  those  who  understand 
her  is  the  Anglo-Indian  '  spin '  in  her  sec- 


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ond  season ;  but  the  girls  of  America  are 
above  and  beyond  them  all.  They  are 
clever,  they  can  talk — yea,  they  think. 

"They  are  original,  and  regard  you  be- 
tween the  brows  with  unabashed  eyes  as 
a  sister  might  look  at  her  brother.  They 
are  instructed,  too,  in  the  folly  and  vanity 
of  the  male  mind,  for  they  have  associated 
with  '  the  boys '  from  babyhood,  and  can 
discerningly  minister  to  both  vices  or 
pleasantly  snub  the  possessor.  They  pos- 
sess, moreover,  a  life  among  themselves, 
independent  of  any  masculine  associa- 
tions. They  have  societies  and  clubs  and 
unlimited  tea-fights  where  all  the  guests 
are  girls.  They  are  self-possessed,  with- 
out parting  with  any  tenderness  that  is 
their  sex-right;  they  understand;  they  can 
take  care  of  themselves;  they  are  superbly 
independent.  When  you  ask  them  what 
makes  them  so  charming,  they  say : 

'"It  is  because  we  are  better  educated 
than  your  girls,  and — and  we  are  more 
sensible  in  regard  to  men.     We  have  good 


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times  all  round,  but  we  aren't  taught  to 
regard  every  man  as  a  possible  husband. 
Nor  is  he  expected  to  marry  the  first  girl 
he  calls  on  regularly.' 

"  Yes,  they  have  good  times,  their  free- 
dom is  large,  and  they  do  not  abuse  it."* — 
From  American  Notes. 


The  Bohemian   Club. 

Here  is  an  enthusiastic  appreciation  of 
a  San  Francisco  club,  written  by  Mr.  Kip- 
ling in  the  early  nineties: 

"  Do  you  know  the  Bohemian  Club  of 
San  Francisco?  They  say  its  fame  ex- 
tends over  the  world.  It  was  created, 
somewhat  on  the  lines  of  the  Savage,  by 
men  who  wrote  or  drew  things.  The  ruler 
of  the  place  is  an  owl — an  owl  standing 
upon  a  skull  and  cross-bones,  showing 
forth  grimly  the  wisdom  of  the  man  of 
letters  and  the  end  of  his  hopes  for  immor- 
tality.    Under  his  wing  'twas  my  privilege 


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to  meet  with  white  men  whose  lives  were 
not  chained  down  to  routine  of  toil,  who 
wrote  magazine  articles  instead  of  reading 
them  hurriedly  in  the  pauses  of  office- 
work,  who  painted  pictures  instead  of  con- 
tenting themselves  wdth  cheap  etchings 
picked  up  at  another  man's  sale  of  effects. 
Mine  were  all  the  rights  of  social  inter- 
course, craft  by  craft,  that  India,  stony- 
hearted step-mother  of  collectors,  has 
swindled  us  out  of.  Treading  soft  car- 
pets and  breathing  the  incense  of  superior 
cigars,  I  wandered  from  room  to  room 
studying  the  paintings  in  which  the  mem- 
bers of  the  club  had  caricatured  them- 
selves, their  associates,  and  their  aims. 
In  this  club  were  no  amateurs  spoiling 
canvas,  because  they  fancied  they  could 
handle  oils  without  knowledge  of  shadows 
or  anatomy — no  gentleman  of  leisure  ruin- 
ing the  temper  of  publishers  and  an  already 
ruined  market  with  attempts  to  write,  '  be- 
cause everybody  writes  something  these 
days.' " 


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"  Ballad  of  the  East  and  West." 

The  following  sentiment  by  Mr.  Kip- 
ling was  the  outcome  of  a  friendly  dis- 
cussion among  a  party  of  literary  folk  in 
London  after  Kipling's  return  from  his 
first  visit  to  America : 

"  I  think,"  said  he,  "  men  are  much  the 
same  everywhere.  A  weak  man  in  Amer- 
ica would  be  a  weak  man  in  London — or 
Zululand.  And  there  are  strong  men  East 
and  West,  and  everywhere." 

This  idea  afterward  took  more  perma- 
nent shape  in  one  of  the  strongest  poems 
that  Mr.  Kipling  has  yet  produced,  en- 
titled the  "  Ballad  of  the  East  and  West," 
the  opening  lines  of  which  are  as  fol- 
lows: 

"  For  there  is  neither  East  or  West, 
Border,  nor  breed,  nor  birth, 
When  two  strong  men  stand  face  to  face. 

Though  they  come  from  the  ends  of  the  earth. ' ' 


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A  Yale  Literary   Club. 

The  following  "  regrets "  were  penned 
by  Mr,  Kipling,  in  acknowledgment  of  an 
invitation  to  dine  with  a  club  at  Yale : 

MULVANEY   REGRETS. 

Attind  ye  lasses  av  swate  Pamasses, 

And  woipe  me  bumin'  tears  away  ; 

For  I'm  declinin'  a  chanst  av  dinin' 

W'id  the  boys  at  Vale  on  the  fourteenth  May. 

The  leadin'  fayture  will  be  liter-ature 
(Av  a  moral  nature,  as  is  just  an'  right) , 
For  their  light  an'  leadin'  are  engaged  in  readin' 
Me  immortal  womiks  from  dawn  till  night. 

They've  made  a  club  there  an'  staked  out  grub  there, 
Wid  plates  and  dishes  in  a  joyous  row ; 
An'  they'd  think  ut  splindid  if  I  attindid  ; 
An'  so  would  I — but  I  cannot  go. 

The  honest  fact  is  that  daily  practise 
Av  rowlin'  ink-pots  the  same  as  me 
Conshumes  me  hours  in  the  Muses'  bowers, 
An'  laves  me  divil  a  day  to  spree. 

Whin  you  grow  oulder  an'  skin  your  shoulder 
At  the  world's  great  wheel  in  your  chosen  line. 


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Ye' 11  find  your  chances  as  time  advances 
For  takin'  a  lark  are  as  slim  as  mine. 

But  I'm  digressin' — accept  my  blessin' 
An'  remimber  what  ould  King  Solomon  said  ; 
That  youth  is  ructions  an'  whiskey's  fluctious, 
An'  there's  nothin'  certain  but  the  momin'  head. 


The   Case  of  the   "  Cantab." 

Here  is  evidence  of  the  admiration  felt 
for  him  at  Cambridge  (England).  The 
editor  of  the  Cantab  dared  to  write  for  a 
literary  contribution  from  the  Great  Young 
Man's  pen.  Mr.  Kipling  replied  quickly, 
displaying  at  one  swoop  his  power  both  as 
"  lightning  "  poet  and  artist : 

There  once  was  a  writer  who  wrote  : 
"  Dear  Sir,  in  reply  to  your  note 

Of  yesterday's  date, 

I  am  sorry  to  state 
It's  no  good — at  the  prices  you  quote." 

At  the  head  of  the  letter  was  the  follow- 
ing picture: 


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'  Gold  Cannot  Bits'  Me-' 

(.Draicn  by  Ur.  Kipling) 


UNDER 
DEODA 


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Not  to  be  deterred,  the  editor  wrote 
again,  thanking  Mr,  Kipling  for  his  reply, 
and  adding :  "  But  since  you  refer  to  our 
payments  as  unsatisfactory,  I  have  con- 
sulted with  my  colleagues,  and  they  join 
with  me  in  desiring  to  know  on  what  terms 
you  would  write  us  a  brief  article.  So 
long  as  we  have  any  garments  left  in  our 
wardrobes,  and  an  obliging  avuncular  rela- 
tive, we  are  prepared  to  make  any  sacri- 
fices to  obtain  some  of  your  spirited  lines." 
To  this  Mr.  Kipling  answered  as  follows, 
illustrating  the  letter  with  a  picture  from 
his  own  hand  of  an  undergraduate  dressed 
only  in  an  umbrella :  "  Dear  Sir  : — Heaven 
forbid  that  the  staff  of  the  Cantab  should 
go  about  pawning  their  raiment  in  a  pub- 
lic-spirited attempt  to  secure  a  contribution 
from  my  pen !  The  fact  is  that  I  can't  do 
things  to  order  with  any  satisfaction  to 
myself  or  the  buyer.  Otherwise  I  would 
have  sent  you  something." 

Mr.  Kipling  may  have  thought  that  then 
all  was  well,  and  he  was  entitled  to  a  little 


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peace.  But  no.  The  editor  of  the  Cantab 
wrote  again,  asking  for  a  photograph.  The 
reply  came  quickly.  Mr.  Kipling  said: 
"  As  to  photos  of  myself,  I  have  not  one 
by  me  at  present,  but  when  I  find  one  I 
will  send  it;  but  not  for  publication,  be- 
cause my  beauty  is  such  that  it  fades  like 
a  flower  if  you  expose  it." 


The   Horsmonden  Affair. 

Whereas  the  schoolboys  of  Horsmon- 
den School,  in  Kent,  England,  had  just  be- 
come the  founders,  editors,  and  proprietors 
of  the  Horsmonden  School  Budget,  they  con- 
ceived the  idea  that  the  author  of  "  Under 
the  Deodars  "  ought  to  be  open  to  any  offer 
which  might  be  made  for  the  product  of  his 
facile  pen. 

Accordingly  it  was  resolved  to  write  Mr. 
Kipling  and  offer  him  threepence  per  page 
for  anything  which  he  might  send  on,  quot- 
ing the  writer's  own  lines : 


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"  The  song  I  sing  for  good  red  gold, 
The  same  I  sing  for  the  white  money ; 
But  the  best  I  sing  for  a  clout  of  meal 
That  simple  people  give  me" — 

and  further  stating  that  unless  he  chose  to 
comply  with  their  terms  they  might  be  led 
to  stifle  his  next  production  which  should 
appear  elsewhere. 

Mr.  Kipling  was  no  doubt  somewhat  as- 
tonished at  the  offer  and  to  realize  the  fate 
which  might  await  him  did  he  not  comply; 
but  he  decided  to  send  them  a  few  hints 
upon  schoolboy  etiquette,  which  appeared 
in  full  in  a  later  issue  of  the  Budget, 
wherein  he  remarked  that  the  said  editors 
"seemed  to  be  in  possession  of  all  the 
cheek  that  was  in  the  least  likely  to  do  them 
any  good  in  this  world  or  the  next." 

The  "Hints"  were  duly  received  and 
printed,  which  caused  the  Academy  to  re- 
mark that  just  at  that  moment  the  most  il- 
lustrious periodical  in  the  world  was  the 
Horsmonden  School  Budget. 

Subsequently — in  partial  revenge,  it  is 


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to  be  presumed — the  editors  of  the  Budget 
applied  to  Mr.  Max  Beerbohm  for  a  carica- 
tiire  of  Mr,  Kipling,  to  be  reproduced  in  a 
subsequent  issue,  and  were  pleased  to  find 
in  their  letter-box  just  such  a  picture  of  the 
great  man  as  they  had  wished  for. 

Of  course  there  was  an  immediate  de- 
mand for  the  respective  issues  containing 
the  valued  contributions ;  but  it  was  impos- 
sible to  reprint  the  original  issues  in  fac- 
simile form,  as  they  were  issued  in  manu- 
script only,  and  for  the  few  remaining 
copies  in  the  personal  possession  of  the 
editors  payment  to  the  value  of  their 
weight  in  gold  was  the  price  asked  by 
the  happy  owners. 

One  shudders  to  think  of  the  deluge  of 
appeals  upon  the  good  nature  of  our  leading 
authors  were  school  publications  in  general 
to  adopt  the  course  which  proved  so  pro- 
ductive in  the  present  instance. 


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Clarke  Russell's  Appreciation. 

"  To  the  Editor  0/  the  Morning  Post  {Lon- 
don). 

"Sir: — I  have  been  reading  Mr.  Kip- 
ling's contributions  entitled  '  A  Fleet  in 
Being'  with  the  greatest  enjoyment  and 
profit. 

"  A  naval  officer  said  to  me : 

"  'If  Rudyard  Kipling  had  been  born  in 
a  battle-ship,  if  all  his  life  he  had  drilled 
with  the  marines,  stoked  with  the  stokers 
and  hauled  with  the  Jackies  at  the  falls, 
loaded  and  fired  every  gun  aboard  ship, 
conned  the  vessel  on  the  bridge,  grasped 
the  spokes  of  the  wheel,  chaffed  and  ar- 
gued in  the  gun-room,  and  in  the  wardroom 
listened  with  respectful  countenance,  he 
could  not  have  known  more  about  it.' 

"  W.  Clarke  Russell. 

"9  Sydney  Place,  Bath,  November  nth,  1898." 


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Mr.    Kipling   and   the 

Royal   Navy. 

In  the  fall  of  '98  Mr.  Kipling  went 
cruising  with  the  Channel  Squadron  as  the 
guest  of  Captain  Bayley,  of  H,  M.  S.  Pe- 
lorus.  He  joined  the  ship  at  Milford 
Haven,  and  proceeded  with  the  fleet  on  a 
cruise  round  the  coast  of  Ireland. 

The  Felorus  is  a  third-class  cruiser.  And 
in  spite  of  heavy  weather,  which  seemed  to 
follow  them  from  place  to  place,  the  op- 
portunity was  made  the  most  of  by  Mr. 
Kipling,  who  was  very  busy  with  his  ob- 
servations and  whose  notebook  was  in  con- 
stant requisition. 

On  the  last  evening  of  the  stay  of  the 
squadron  in  Bantry  Bay  an  entertainment 
was  given  on  board  of  the  flagship  Majes- 
tic, at  which  Mr.  Kipling  was  present ;  and, 
complying  with  a  unanimous  request,  the 
author  read  one  of  his  poems,  "  Soldier 
and   Sailor  Too."     Another  and   yet  an- 


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other  was  called  for,  and  lastly  he  gave 
"The  Flag  of  England." 

At  the  conclusion,  as  the  author  was 
about  to  step  from  the  platform,  he  was 
hoisted  high  upon  the  shoulders  of  some  of 
the  younger  officers,  and  the  band  broke 
out  with  "  For  He's  a  Jolly  Good  Fellow," 
the  chorus  being  taken  up  by  the  voices  of 
the  couple  of  hundred  officers  there  assem- 
bled. 

Mr.  G.  Stewart  Bowles,  a  young  English 
naval  officer  and  the  author  of  "A  Gun- 
Room  Ditty- Box,"  whose  stirring  verses  of 
ship  and  sailor  are  likened  only  to  those 
of  Mr.  Kipling,  wrote  the  following  lines 
upon  the  incident: 

THE    NAVY    TO    MR,   KIPLING. 
He  came  to  see  us  {Lord,  but  why  ? 

There  surely  wasn't  much  to  show). 
The  signals  fluttered  broad  and  high, 

And  mighty  drinks  were  mixed  below. 

He  came  to  see  us  (  What  were  we?). 

We  pointed  out  the  Things  we  Knew, 
And  told  fierce  stories  of  the  Sea, 

Explaining  how  Promotion  grew. 


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He  came  to  see  us  ( That  is  old  ! ). 

Ten  thousand  more  have  done  the  same. 
And,  drunk  with  Power  they  couldn't  hold. 

Have  gone  as  empty  as  they  came. 

He  came  to  see  us  ( That  was  tiew  !  )  ; 

He  saw  the  Meaning  through  the  Task  ; 
Instinctive  took  the  Larger  View, 

And  found  the  Brain  behind  the  Mask  ! 


A  Fleet  in   Being. 


An  event  in  the  literary  world  was  the 
publication,  during  the  latter  part  of  1898, 
in  the  Morning  Post  (London),  of  the  se- 
ries of  articles  entitled  "  A  Fleet  in  Be- 
ing," the  outcome  of  Mr.  Kipling's  cruise 
with  the  Channel  Fleet  before  alluded  to. 

Such  a  series  could  not  have  been 
printed  at  a  more  opportune  time.  Naval 
affairs  of  the  Powers  in  general  were  at- 
tracting a  more  than  ordinary  amount  of 
attention. 

Therein  the  author  of  "The  Seven 
Seas"  is  seen  in  a  high-spirited,  holiday 


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mood,  recording  with  lightness  and  buoy- 
ancy, with  no  restraining  influence  of  a 
literary  style,  whatever  came  before  his 
eyes. 

It  was  a  delicate  compliment  to  Mr. 
Bowles,  the  author  of  "  A  Gun-Room  Ditty- 
Box,"  for  Mr.  Kipling  to  have  chosen  the 
following  lines  to  open  the  series : 

"...  the  sailor  men 

That  sail  upon  the  seas, 
To  fight  the  Wars  and  keep  the  Laws 
And  eat  the  yellow  peas. " 

In  these  sketches  Mr.  Kipling  has  man- 
ifestly returned  to  his  first  love,  journal- 
ism, and  he  seems  to  enjoy  her  company 
wonderfully.  One  thing  these  sketches 
strikingly  illustrate:  the  loss  to  descrip- 
tive journalism  when  Mr.  Kipling  took  to 
literature. 

The  description  of  the  Channel  Squad- 
ron's manoeuvres  is  a  rattling,  rollicking 
piece  of  work,  hot  from  the  pen  and  just 
the  thing  for  the  moment. 


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Mr.   Kipling  and  Medicine. 

Mr,  Kipling's  knowledge  of  medicine, 
it  is  said,  is  considerable.  Speaking  at 
a  dinner  given  to  Sir  William  Gowers, 
Mr.  Kipling  said  that  "  but  for  the  infinite 
mercy  of  Providence  he  would  have  been  a 
doctor,  for  when  he  was  about  sixteen 
years  of  age  he  had  intended  to  practise 
medicine.  After  a  little  time  given  to  the 
Latin  as  set  forth  in  Caesar  he  gave  up  the 
idea.  But  he  was  allowed  to  play  about 
the  outskirts  of  St.  Mary's  Hospital  at 
Paddington,  where  he  picked  up  a  great 
deal  of  that  half-knowledge  which  in 
medical  matters  is  such  a  dangerous 
thing." 


"Manchester  Goods  and  Poetry." 

With  the  above  significant  heading,  or, 
to  quote  literally,  "  Cotonnade  et  Poesie," 
Arvede    Barine,    the    well-known    French 


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writer,  penned  a  long  review  of  Mr.  Kip- 
ling's "  Seven  Seas  "  ("  Les  Sept  Mers  ") 
in  the  Paris  Figaro. 

From  the  first  lines  it  gives  a  nev/  point 
of  view.  "  At  the  first  glance,"  she  says, 
"  there  would  seem  to  be  nothing  poetic  in 
the  selling  of  stuffs  to  the  accompaniment 
of  powder  and  shot," 

"The  most  popular  of  England's  writ- 
ers, Mr.  Rudyard  Kipling,  gives  poetic 
consecration  to  her  commerce  and  foreign 
and  colonial  competition.  He  translates 
politics  into  the  lyrical  tongue,  and  glori- 
fies in  verse  the  conquest  of  English  com- 
merce and  cruisers." 

Her  rendering  of  the  following  lines  is 
given  below  as  translated : 

"  We  have  fed  our  sea  for  a  thousand  years, 

And  she  calls  us,  still  unfed, 
Though  there's  never  a  wave  of  all  her  waves 

But  marks  our  English  dead  ; 
We  have  strewed  our  best  to  the  weeds'  unrest. 

To  the  shark  and  the  sheering  gull. 
If  blood  be  the  price  of  admiralty, 

Lord  God;  we  ha'  paid  in  full  !  " 


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"  Voilh  viille  ans  que  nous  donnons  en  pdture  aux 
viers, 
Etelles  nous  appellent  encore,  encore  inassouvies; 
De  toutes  leurs  vagues  il  n' est  pas  une  vague 

Qui  nait  rould  un  cadavre  anglais. 
Les  meilleurs  d'entre  nous  ant  cte  ballotth  dans  ies 
algues  totirbillonnantes , 
Sous  la  dent  des  requins  et  Ic  bee  des  oiseaux  de 
proie. 
Si  le  sang  est  le  prix  de  Vetupire  des  mers, 

O  Seigneur  notre  Dieu,  nous  Favons  bienpayi  !  " 

Our  critic  continues :  "  Never  before  has 
the  beauty  which  underlies  modern  energy 
and  activity  been  expressed  with  such  elo- 
quence. The  verses  are  the  poetization 
of  the  imperial  task  and  policy."  And 
then  she  quotes  from  the  "  Hymn  Before 
Action."  "  It  is  with  this  poem  that  one 
should  leave  the  French  reader.  It  trans- 
lates faithfully  the  feelings  of  millions 
of  Englishmen.  Short-sighted  indeed  are 
they  who  continue  to  doubt  these  feelings." 

On  reading  the  above  it  might  seem 
that  a  poet's  word  carried  more  weight 
than  a  prime  minister's. 


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The  Poet  of  Energy. 

Another  French  critic,  M.  Andre  Che- 
villon,  gives  this  brilliant  risumi  of  Mr. 
Kipling's  writings: 

"He  is  crisp,  powerful,  compact,  and 
keen,  like  Merimee,  but  much  more  sin- 
ewy, instantaneous,  and  cruel. 

"  Not  like  our  Loti,  with  a  passive  and 
semi-neurasthenic  melancholy,  a  shudder 
of  pain  and  voluptuousness  at  the  thought 
of  death  and  the  eternal  forces;  but  like 
the  man  of  action,  who  sees  in  those  forces 
only  obstacles  to  exercise  his  activities, 
whet  his  will,  fortify  his  personality,  define 
and  harden  his  self-respect." 


The   Literature   of  Action. 

The  following  is  from  an  article  by  Ed- 
mund Gosse  in  the  North  Americati  Re- 
view: 

"We  have  had  the  signal  good  fortune 


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to  see  at  this  opportune  hour  the  develop- 
ment of  perhaps  the  most  purely  patriotic 
talent  that  ever  flourished  in  England. 
The  most  powerful  and  distinguished  Brit- 
ish author,  under  thirty-five  years  of  age,  is 
unquestionably  Mr.  Rudyard  Kipling,  and 
his  whole  literary  career  is  one  unflagging 
appeal  to  the  fighting  instincts  of  the  race. 
.  .  .  Mr.  Kipling  is  not  correctly  styled  a 
Jingo  or  a  Chauvinist.  He  does  not  pro- 
voke war  or  underestimate  its  afflictions, 
but  he  preaches  forever  in  our  ears,  '  Be 
ready.'  .  .  . 

"  The  peculiar  gravity  of  Mr.  Kipling's 
appeal  to  the  English-speaking  races — for 
even  America  is  surely  not  unaffected  by 
his  voice — has  been  met  in  Great  Britain 
by  the  inevitable  chorus  of  imitators. 
Every  song-writer,  every  leader-writer, 
every  story-teller  has  a  little  touch  of  his 
magic  to-day,  a  little  strain  of  what  the 
Germans  might  call  Kiplingismus.  His 
appearance  in  our  literature  at  this  crisis, 
with  its  sweeping  away  of  the  graceful  but 


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slightly  effeminate  cult  of  beauty  and  har- 
mony which  preceded  it,  is  one  of  those 
extraordinary  coincidences  which  occur  in 
the  history  of  the  mind.  For  who  shall 
say  whether  athleticism  created  Mr.  Kip- 
ling or  whether  Mr.  Kipling  has  encour- 
aged athleticism  ?  The  two  grow  side  by 
side,  and  to  what  harvest  who  can  tell  ?  " 


Expansion  and   Imperialism. 

As  Mr.  Cecil  Rhodes  was  the  most  typi- 
cal and  practical  of  British  empire-build- 
ers, so  is  Mr.  Kipling  the  foremost  literary 
exponent  of  the  expansion  of  Greater 
Britain — the  world-laureate  as  well.  The 
German  Kaiser  has  received  Mr.  Rhodes 
at  Berlin,  and  has  cabled  to  the  United 
States  his  solicitous  interest  and  sympathy 
during  Mr.  Kipling's  illness — two  signifi- 
cant items  of  news,  which  might  seem  to 
augur  a  new  and  closer  kinship  between 
nations. 


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The   Man  Who   Is. 

A  relief  it  is  not  to  be  obliged  to  write 
of  Mr.  Kipling  in  the  past  tense;  as  The 
Man  Who  Was  he  would  still  be  a  striking 
figure. 

Death's  known  preference  for  the  shin- 
ing mark  made  it  seem  likely  that  Mr. 
Kipling's  illness  during  the  early  months 
of  1899  would  terminate  fatally. 

Never  before  has  the  illness  of  an  author 
been  treated  as  an  event  of  international 
importance  among  all  classes,  from  high 
and  low,  from  emperor  to  commoner. 

Some  writers  give  the  impression  that 
their  best  work  will  be  done  in  their  youth, 
Mr.  Joaquin  Miller  is  said  to  have  made 
the  following  remark  at  the  time :  "  Had  I 
died  at  the  present  age  of  Kipling,  the 
world  Vi'ould  never  have  heard  of  me" — a 
significant  statement  truly,  and  one  which 
might  well  be  applied  to  other  literary 
lights  whose  successes  and  recognition 
came  to  them  late  in  life. 


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Fac-simile  of  Cover  to  First  Edition. 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  8i 

In  any  estimate  of  Mr.  Kipling's  gifts 
his  versatility  must  be  given  its  due  meas- 
ure of  credit.  It  is  this  that  has  endeared 
him  to  all  classes  of  readers.  He  is  truly 
the  author  of  many  inventions  and  the 
possessor  of  an  extraordinary  power  of 
making  us  believe  in  his  creations.  It  is 
the  people  of  action  that  appeal  to  Mr. 
Kipling — those  who  err,  who  may  even  sin, 
but  at  least  have  played  their  parts  in  life 
with  courage  and  an  attitude  of  responsi- 
bility. To  quote  from  "Tomlinson,"  ob- 
serve this  stern  inquiry: 

"  '  Ye  have  read,  ye  have  heard,  ye  have  thought,' 
he  said  ;  '  and  the  talk  is  still  to  run  ; 
By  the  worth  of  the  body  that  once  ye  had,  give 
answer — What  ha'  ye  done  ? '  " 


Some  Quotations. 

"  Look  to  a  man  who  has  the  counsel  of 
a  woman  of  or  above  the  world  to  back 
him."  —  Under  the  Deodars. 


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"  Year  by  year  England  sends  out  fresh 
drafts  for  the  first  fighting-line,  which  is 
officially  called  the  Indian  Civil  Service. 
These  die,  or  kill  themselves  by  overwork, 
or  are  worried  to  death,  or  are  broken  in 
health  and  hope,  in  order  that  the  land 
may  be  protected  from  death  and  sickness, 
famine  and  war,  and  may  eventually  be- 
come capable  of  standing  alone." 

— Black  and  White. 

"  You  may  carve  it  on  his  tombstone, 
You  may  cut  it  on  his  card — 
That  a  young  man  married 
Is  a  young  man  marred." 

—  The  Story  of  the  Gadsbys. 


A   Compliment  from 

Mr.   Kipling. 

The  following  letter  was  received  by  Mr. 
Frank  BuUen,  the  author  of  "  The  Cruise 
of  the  Cachelot,"  after  his  publishers  had 


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sent  Mr.  Kipling  advance  sheets   of   the 
forthcoming  book : 

Rottingdean,  November  a2d,  i8g8. 
Dear  Mr.  Bullen  : — It  is  immense — there  is  no 
other  word.  I've  never  read  anything  that  equals 
it  in  its  deep-sea  wonder  and  mystery,  nor  do  I  think 
that  any  book  before  has  so  completely  covered  the 
whole  business  of  whale-fishing,  and  at  the  same 
time  given  such  real  and  new  sea-pictures.  I  con- 
gratulate you  most  Juartily,  It 's  a  new  world  that 
you've  opened  the  door  to. 

RUDYARD   KIPLING. 


Ships,   Seas,   and   Sailors. 

Mr.  Kipling's  eternal  ship  is  symbolic; 
so  is  his  everlasting  sea;  but  very  real  is 
his  sailorman,  whether  he  be  at  home  on 
the  fo'castle  or  quarter-deck.  The  ship  is 
not  merely  a  machine,  but  a  congregation 
of  machines,  which  must  be  carefully  tal- 
lowed, riveted,  exercised,  and  groomed. 

But  does  Mr.  Kipling  sit  at  a  desk  and 
write  mere  words  about  these  pets  of  his, 


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or  does  he  dream  them  ?  Neither,  possibly. 
He  trains  for  his  work  as  would  a  profes- 
sional athlete.  He  keeps  himself  in  the 
pink  of  condition  by  association  with 
spindle-valves,  spindrift,  and  tar. 

M'Andrews  has  predicted  Mr.  Kipling's 
unassailable  position  when  he  says : 

'^  Lord,  send  a   man   like  Bobbie  Burns  to  sing  & 
song  d  steam." 

As  an  English  review  has  it:  "He 
writes  in  parables,  whether  he  means  it  or 
not.  He  tells  us  we  are  like  his  symbolic 
ship — that  we  don't  know  whither  we  are 
going  or  why  we  are  going,  but  that  we 
must  go;  and  that  the  question  is  not 
whither  nor  why,  but  how." 


The  New  Kipling. 

Mr.  W.  E.  Henly  writes  in   The  Outlook 
(London)  thus: 

"  It  is  written,  I  am  told,  that  Mr.  Kip- 


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ling  is  '  played  out,'  that  his  imagination 
has  departed  him,  that  his  invention  is  in 
a  fair  way  of  following  his  imagination, 
that  he  has  no  other  God  but  facts,  mis- 
takes an  interest  in  technical  terms  (which 
he  shares  among  other  qualities  with  a  cer- 
tain William  Shakespeare)  for  inspiration, 
and  that  he  has  not  the  stuff  of  another 
notable  book  left  in  him.  ...  Of  his  last 
book  ('  The  Day's  Work ')  the  stories 
contained  therein,  including  the  worst,  are 
better  than  most  men's  best,  while  it  seems 
to  me  the  best  are  as  good  as  anything  Mr. 
Kipling  has  done.  .  .  . 

"  Here,  for  instance,  are  half  a  dozen 
stories  as  good  as  any  man  need  wish  to 
read,  and  vastly  better  than  any  living 
man  save  Mr.  Kipling  can  write.  .   .  . 

"  The  old  Kipling— the  Kipling  of '  The 
Man  Who  Would  Be  King' — was  new 
once,  and  assuredly  he  being  his  own  suc- 
cessor is  as  good  a  man  as  himself.  .  .  . 

"I  have  done  enough  to  show  that  in  his 
case  it  is  early — to  say  the  least — though 


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(it  may  be)  natural  enough,  to  begin  to  get 
tired  of  hearing  Aristides  called  *  the  Just' 
"  I  also  record  my  opinion  that,  so  long 
as  Mr,  Kipling  *  declines  and  falls  off,' 
those  glories  of  our  blood  and  state  to 
whose  increase  he  has  contributed  so  po- 
tently will  scarce  be  dwindled  or  dulled 
by  him." 

A   Coincidence  or  a  Satire. 

The  following  is  quoted  from  the  Lon* 
don  Academy : 

KIPLING'S   ECHO   OF    EMERSON. 
An  American.  Brahma. 


BY   RUDYARD     KIPLING. 


BY   RALPH   WALDO 

EMERSON. 


If  the  led  striker  call  it  If  the   red  slayer  think 

a  strike,  he  slays. 

Or  the  papers  call  it  a  Or  if  the  slain  think  he 

war,  is  slain, 

They   know  not     much  They  know  not  well  the 

what  I  am  like  subtle  ways, 

Nor    what    he    is,     my  I   keep,  and    pass,   aad 

Avatar.  turn  again. 


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Through  many  roads  by  They     reckon     ill    who 

me  possessed  leave  me  out ; 

He   shambles    forth    in  When  me  they  fly,  I  am 

cosmic  guise  ;  the  wings  ; 

He  is  the  jester  and  the  I  am   the   doubter   and 

jest  the  doubt, 

And  he  the  text  himself  And    I    the   hymn    the 

applies.  Brahmin  sings. 

"  There  is  of  course  no  plagiarism  here. 
Emerson's  poem  is  so  well  known  that  a 
satirist  has  no  call  to  apologize  for  bor- 
rowing its  formula." 


Kipling's   English   Home. 

In  1898  Mr.  Kipling  settled  down  under 
the  same  old-fashioned  roof-tree  at  Rot- 
tingdean  under  which,  as  a  smart  youngster 
fresh  from  India,  he  had  spent  his  holi- 
days not  so  very  many  years  before. 

In  this  instance  it  was  a  case  of  a  return 
to  one's  old  love.  Here  he  was  among  the 
friends  of  his  boyhood  days. 

Nearly    every   old    villager    remembers 


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"  the  little  Anglo-Indian,"  as  they  used  to 
call  Burne-Jones'  nephew. 

Rottingdean  is  but  four  miles  from  the 
gay  and  festive  Brighton,  yet  in  spite  of 
its  neighbor  the  little  village  still  remains 
a  delightful  Old- World  spot. 

It  is  an  ideal  village,  the  sort  which 
Caldecott  and  Hugh  Thompson  delight  to 
figure  in  their  sketches — an  orthodox  horse- 
trough,  a  conventional  green,  and  the  in- 
evitable inn,  "  The  Plough,"  where  'tis  said 
Kipling  is  wont  to  repair  and  discuss  local 
politics  with  its  genial  host.  Old-fash- 
ioned houses  abound,  among  them  a  vicar- 
age with  traditions  of  Wellington  and  Lyt- 
ton.  The  one  with  a  studio  skylight 
belonged  to  Sir  Edward  Burne-Jones;  next 
comes  Mr.  Kipling's  domicile,  known  as 
"The  Elms."  From  its  windows  can  be 
seen  on  a  clear  day  Beechy  Head,  down 
channel  to  the  westward  some  forty  miles, 
and  directly  in  front  the  choppy  waves  of 
the  English  Channel  stretching  away  to- 
ward the  French  coast. 


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At  the  time  this  is  written  the  chance 
visitor  to  Rottingdean  is  more  than  likely 
to  encounter  Mr.  Kipling  striding  about 
the  village  or  lounging  on  the  sands  at  low 
tide. 


A   Doubtful    Prophecy. 

Mr.  George  Moore,  he  of  "  Esther 
Waters"  and  rabid  art-criticism  fame,  is 
moved  to  write  thus  in  a  London  review : 

"  Mr,  Kipling  would  not  have  written 
the  most  hideous  verses  ever  written  in  a 
beautiful  language  if  he  had  not  lived  in 
a  specially  hideous  moment,  the  moment 
of  the  African  millionaire,  when  England, 
gorged  with  wealth,  lusted  for  more,  when 
thousands  of  Arabs  were  shot  in  the  desert 
with  machine-guns — and  the  General  who 
commanded  in  these  shambles  was  greeted 
as  a  hero." 

Mr.  Kipling,  this  writer  further  main- 
tains, will  be  forgotten  ten  years  hence,  by 


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which  time  the  Anglo-Saxon  will  have  re- 
covered from  his  bout  of  blackguardism. 


Kipling's   Rebuke. 

Mr.  Kipling's  jubilee  ode  "  Recessional," 
which  has  spread  broadcast  on  its  own 
wings,  and  which  has  done  much  to  stamp 
his  power  and  ability  indelibl)'  upon  our 
minds,  was,  after  all,  but  a  wonderfully 
subtle  bit  of  satire.  Its  author  has  said 
and  done  many  startling  things,  but  this 
"  Recessional  "  stands  out  over  all  the  gush 
and  twaddle  attendant  upon  the  Victorian 
Jubilee  celebration  of  1897,  a  calm  and 
dignified  rebuke  to  "  frantic  boast  and  fool- 
ish word."  Its  strength  and  quality  indi- 
cate the  mind  of  the  master,  and,  aside 
from  the  occasion  which  called  it  forth, 
will  take  its  place  among  the  lasting  works 
of  the  century. 


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Difficult  to   Translate. 

When  Dr.  Leo  Kellner,  of  "Vienna,  the 
author  of  a  monumental  work  on  English 
literature,  complained  to  Mr.  Kipling  of 
the  difficulties  he  found  in  comparing  the 
different  values  he  found  placed  upon  Eng- 
lish poets  in  England  itself  and  among  for- 
eign nations,  Mr.  Kipling  remarked,  says 
Dr.  Kellner :  "  I  perfectly  understand  the 
difference  of  taste,  and  therefore  of  judg- 
ment, on  one  and  the  same  poet  by  two 
different  people,  I  only  ^^onder  that  now 
and  then  agreement  does  at  all  exist.  You 
Germans  may  understand  English  as  far  as 
grammar  and  dictionary  can  convey  it  to 
you,  but  when  you  translate  '  justice  '  by 
'  gerechtigkeit,'  or  '  virtue  '  by  '  tugend,' 
you  by  no  means  call  up  by  these  words  the 
same  idea  which  the  Englishman  thought 
of  when  he  wrote  down  these  words.  We 
write,  it  is  true,  in  letters  of  the  alphabet, 
but,  psychologically  regarded,  every  printed 
page  is  a  picture-book,  every  word,  concrete 


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or  abstract,  a  picture.  The  picture  itself 
may  never  come  to  the  reader's  conscious- 
ness, but  deep  down  below  in  the  uncon- 
scious realms  the  picture  works  and  influ- 
ences us,  and  that  is  where  the  difficulty 
lies.  Every  nation  has  its  own  picture  for 
every  word,  and  this  is  passed  on  uncon- 
sciously from  generation  to  generation. 
The  German  has  quite  another  kind  of 
picture  for  '  gerechtigkeit,'  as  the  English- 
man for  '  justice,'  Now,  every  poem  con- 
tains hundreds  of  such  pictures.  It  is 
rather  to  be  wondered  at  that  any  nation 
can  at  all  understand  the  poetry  of  another; 
and  still,"  he  added,  reflectively,  "  the  time 
is  rapidly  approaching  that  the  nations 
will  understand  one  another." 

Kipling  on  Shakespeare. 

Mr.  Kipling  recently  wrote  to  The  Spec- 
tator thus  apropos  of  a  discussion  which 
was  occupying  its  columns  regarding  "  The 
Tempest"  of  Shakespeare: 


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"May  I  cite  Malone's  suggestion  con- 
necting the  play  with  the  casting  away  of 
Sir  George  Somers  on  the  island  of  Ber- 
muda in  1609,  and  further,  may  I  be' al- 
lowed to  say  how  it  seems  to  me  possible 
that  the  vision  was  woven  from  the  most 
prosaic  material — from  nothing  more  prom- 
ising, in  fact,  than  the  chatter  of  a  half- 
tipsy  sailor?  .  ,  .  Accept  this  theory  and 
you  will  concede  that  *  The  Tempest '  came 
sanely  and  normally.  .  .  .  Truly,  there 
was  a  dream,  but  that  there  may  be  no 
doubt  of  its  source  or  of  his  obligation 
Shakespeare  has  made  the  dreamer  im- 
mortal." 

An   Italian  Review. 

In  the  Nuova  Antologia  of  Rome  is  an 
enthusiastic  appreciation  of  Mr.  Kipling's 
work,  under  the  title  of  "  Rudyard  Kip- 
ling, Poeta  e  Prosatore,"  by  Signor  Ales- 
sandro  Bosdari  of  the  Italian  Embassy  in 
London.     Therein  the  reviewer  comments 


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on  "  The  Recessional,"  the  "  Biblical  ac- 
cents" of  which  he  reproduces  in  a  literal 
translation,  which  here  follows : 

"  Dio  dei  padri  7wstri  no  to  dal  tempo 
antico,  Signore  delle  nostri  schiere  lanciate 
lontano — dalla  cut  Man  terribile  teniatno 
Vimperio  sulla  palma  e  il  pino. — Dio  Signor 
degli  Eserciti  sit  ancora  con  noi,  che  non 
scordiatno,  che  non  scordiamo. 

"  II  tumulto  e  gli  spari  tnoiono^  i  duel  e  i 
re  spariscono — perdura  il  tuo  antico  scuri- 
fizio  un  cuor  contrito  ed  umiliato. — Dio  Si- 
gnor, etc. 

"  Si  dissolvono  le  nostre  flotte  chiamate  da 
lungi — Sulle  dunne  e  i  capi  piomba  il  fuoco. 
Ahi  che  la  nostra  pompa  di  ieri  e  una  sol 
ccsa  con  Ninive  e  con  Tiro  f  Giiidice  delle 
nazioni  risparmiaci  ancora,  che  non  scordiamo, 
che  non  scordiamo. 

"  Se  ebbri  alia  vista  del  potere  sciogliam 
selvaggi  accenti  senza  il  tuo  timore — di  quei 
vanti  che  usano  i  Gentili  0  infime  razze  che 
non  han  la  Legge. — Dio  Signor,  etc. 


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**  Dal  cuor  pagano  che  pon  suo  appoggio 
net  tubi  fumanti  e  nelle  ferree  bombe.  Polve 
valentt  che  fabbrica  su  polve,  e,  a  guardia^ 
non  invoca  Te  che  guardi — Dal  frenetico 
orgoglio  e  dai  Jolli  accenti,  la  tua  pietcl  pel 
tuo popolo  O  S ignore  !     Amen." 

Here,  in  i.pite  of  the  obduracy  of  his 
medium,  the  translator  has  bent  it  to  his 
purpose,  and  reproduced  the  sense  and  feel- 
ing of  the  verse,  and  much  of  its  beat  and 
movement  in  his  half -rhythmic  prose. 

A  Voice  from   South  Africa.  '- 

At  Kimberley  Mr,  Kipling  was  asked  by 
the  South  African  League  to  suggest  a  form 
of  coat  of  arms  for  the  league.  He  advised 
a  shield  with  four  colors,  representing  the 
four  great  rivers,  the  Zambesi,  the  Lim- 
popo, the  Vaal,  and  the  Orange.  Beneath 
was  to  be  a  scroll  with  the  motto,  "  Not 
less  than  the  greatest," 

— Londoti  Academy. 


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"The  Dipsey  Chantey." 

"  Landlubbers  may  have  wondered  at  the 
peculiar  name  given  to  one  of  Mr.  Kip- 
ling's most  famous  songs  of  the  sailor," 
says  a  London  review. 

When  sailors  are  about  to  do  any  work 
needing  concerted  action  on  the  part  of 
those  engaged  therein  they  sing  or  chant 
more  or  less  melodiously,  having  usually  a 
different  chant  for  each  kind  of  work. 

At  certain  words  and  in  the  chorus  all 
join  in  together,  the  rhythm  having  up  to 
that  point  been  carried  solely  by  some  one 
individual. 

"  The  Dipsey  Chantey  "  is  that  sung  at 
the  heaving  of  the  lead.  Navigators  like 
to  hear  the  men  roaring  their  chanteys,  it 
signifying  content.  When  they  are  discon- 
tented they  barely  mutter  the  words,  and 
when  the  sailor  man  raises  not  his  voice 
look  out  for  trouble. 

The  chantey  is  even  used  when  the  wind 
is  blowing   so   hard   that  the  words  are 


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barely  distinguishable.  When  reefing  the 
sails  of  a  "square  rigger"  the  men  will 
sing  "  Whiskey  is  the  life  of  man,"  though 
the  gale  drown  the  words  at  their  lips,  but 
the  rhythm  being  so  well  known  and  so  in- 
spiring and  stimulating  to  their  best  efforts 
that  they  pull  and  haul  with  an  indomita- 
ble will. 

And  thus  it  is  that  this  simple  act  of 
the  sailor's  every-day  life  has  been  em- 
bodied in  the  poem  referred  to  as  "  The 
Deep-Sea  Chantey." 

The  Minor   Poet. 

(With  an  Acknowledgment  to  Mr.  Kipling. ) 
I  went  into  a  publisher's  as  woful  as  a  hearse, 
The  publisher  he  ups  and  says,  ' '  Why  Tiill  you 

chaps  write  verse  ?  " 
The  girl  behind  the  Remington  she  tittered   fit  to 

die, 
I  outs  into  the  street  again  and  to  myself  says  I  : 
O  it's  verses  this  and  verses  that,  and  writing 

'em  is  wrong  ; 
But  it's  "  special  type  and  vellum  "  when  you 
hit  on  something  strong. 


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You  hit  on  something  strong,  my  boys,  you 

hit  on  something  strong, 
O  it's  "  signed  large-paper  copies"  when  you 

hit  on  something  strong. 

I  calls  upon  an  editor — a  very  nice  young  man — 
Says  he,  "  Send  in  your  stanzas  and  we'll  use  'em 

if  we  can. ' ' 
Of  course  I  sends  'em  to  him  in  the  usual  bloomia' 

way, 
Of  course  he  keeps  and  keeps  'em,  and  he's  got  'em 
to  this  day  ! 
And  it's  verses  this,  and  verses  that,  and  verses 

for  to  burn  ; 
But  they  set  'em  up  in  pica  when  the  tide  be- 
gins to  turn. 
The  tide  begins  to  turn,  my  boys,  the  tide  be- 
gins to  turn, 
O   it's   "two-twelve-six  a  sonnet"  when  the 
tide  begins  to  turn. 

I  prints  a  little  book  and  puts  it  round  like,  for 

review, 
Which — when  you   come   to   think  of   it — it's  the 

proper  thing  to  do  : 
"We   have  upwn  our  table  Mr.  Blankey's  Leaves 

that  Fall." 
And  "another  little  ship  of  song  !  wants  ballast," 

— that  is  all. 


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And  it's  verses  this,  and  verses  that,  and  a  par. 

to  say  you've  sinned  ; 
But  it's  a  fine  fat  full-page  notice  when  you've 

hit  'em  in  the  wind. 
You've  hit  'em   in  the  wind,  my  boys,  you've 

hit  'em  in  the  wind, 
You're  a  'owling,  'eavenly  Milton  when  you've 

hit  'tm  in  the  vrind. 

We  ain't  no  'eavenly  Miltons,  nor  we  ain't  no  idiots 

too, 
But  "plodding  men  with  famblies"  and  a  pile  to 

make  like  you  ; 
And  all  the  time  you  see  us  down  at  heel  and  look- 
ing weak 
We'  re  a  casting  of  our  bread  upon  the  waters,  so  to 
speak. 
For  it's  verses  this  and  verses  that,  and  things 

run  pretty  rough. 
But  there's   bullion   in  the  verses  if  you  only 

write  the  stuff. 
If  you  only  write  the  stuff,  my  boys,  if  you 

only  write  the  stuff, 
lO  it's  yachts  and  rows  of  houses  if  you  only 
write  the  stuff. 

— T.  W.  H.  Crosland, 
in  London  Academy. 


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Of  Sympathy. 

M.  A.  F.,  T.  P.  O'Connor's  sprightly 
paper,  tells  the  following  of  Mr.  Kipling, 
which  is  especially  interesting  in  view  of 
the  author's  recent  bereavement.  It  ap- 
pears that  the  little  son  of  a  gifted  writer 
whom  Mr.  Kipling — generous  to  a  fault  in 
befriending  the  young  author  struggling  to 
get  on  in  the  world  of  letters — had  aided 
in  gaining  the  ear  of  the  public  when  all 
seemed  against  him,  died  on  the  very  day 
the  long  struggle  was  over  and  his  father's 
first  book  was  published. 

Mr.  Kipling  promptly  wrote  a  long  let- 
ter to  the  sorrow-stricken  father,  "  from 
which,"  says  M.  A.  P.,  "  we  are  permitted 
to  quote  the  following: 

"  ''As  to  the  matter  which  you  have  done 
me  the  honor  to  tell  me,  I  can  only  sympathize 
most  deeply  and  sorrowfully.  People  say 
that  that  kind  of  wound  heals.  It  doesn^t. 
It  only  skins  over ;  but  there  is  at  least  some 


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black  consolation  to  be  got  from  the  old  and 
bitter  thought  that  the  boy  is  safe  from  the 
chances  of  after  years.  I  dotCt  know  that 
that  helps ^  unless  you  happen  to  know  some 
man  who  is  under  a  deeper  sorrow  than 
yours — a  man,  say,  who  has  watched  the 
child  of  his  begetting  go  body  and  soul  to  the 
devil,  and  feels  that  he  is  responsible.  But 
it  is  the  mother  who  bore  him  who  suffers 
most  whe?i  the  you?ig  life  goes  out.""  " 

Of  Empire-Building. 

"  Patriotism,"  said  Johnson,  "  is  the  last 
refuge  of  a  scoundrel."  But  when  it  is  re- 
called of  whom  it  was  said  and  under  what 
conditions,  we  estimate  its  value  accord- 
ingly. 

Indifference  to  the  doings  of  one's  native 
land  is  often  the  result  of  sheer  ignorance; 
and  says  Rudyard  Kipling,  "What  should 
they  know  of  England  who  only  England 
know?"  Thereupon  he  sets  out  to  teach 
them  of  India,  Canada,  South  Africa,  Aus- 


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tralia,  New  Zealand,  and  of  the  brother- 
hood of  man. 

"The  empire  was  a  map;  Rudyard  Kip- 
ling made  it  a  fact,"  says  an  apprecia- 
tive English  writer,  who  continues:  "The 
British  possessions  were  marked  in  red — 
plebeian  red:  Rudyard  Kipling  colored 
them  purple — imperial  purple." 

Kipling — Maupassant. 

An  English  writer  in  a  review  ventures 
the  following : 

"  Rudyard  Kipling  has  been  called  the 
*  English  Maupassant.' " 

This  is  the  finest  compliment  ever  paid 
to — "  Maupassant,  one  third  of  whose  work 
is  unmitigated  filth,  another  third  out  of  all 
proportion,  and  the  last  third  the  result  of 
a  questionable  talent.  Kipling's  work  is 
always  virile :  sometimes  brutal,  but  never 
base,  and  with  an  insight  more  keen  and 
faithful  than  even  that  possessed  by  the 
author  of  'Bel  Ami.'" 


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Writers  Who  Have 

Influenced  Kipling. 

From  "  Rudyard  Kipling  the  Man,"  by 
W.  J.  Clarke,  is  taken  the  following: 

"The  writers  who  have  influenced  Rud- 
yard Kipling  are,  chiefly,  William  Ernest 
Henley,  who  *  showed  him  the  way  to  pro- 
motion and  pay ' ;  James  Thomson,  who 
brought  home  to  him  the  suggestion  of 
•  The  City  of  Dreadful  Night ' ,  Bret  Harte, 
who  drew  his  attention  to  the  literary  pic- 
turesqueness  of  the  vagabond;  Macaulay, 
who  flashed  the  spark  which  fired  his  genius 
for  proper  names ;  Defoe,  who  taught  him 
the  trick  of  using  minute  detail  and  precise 
terminology;  Dickens,  who  inspired  him 
to  sympathize  with  the  lowly  and  to  see  the 
humor  that  dwelleth  in  small  things ;  the 
compilers  of  the  Bible,  who  gave  him  a 
large  share  of  his  diction  and  showed  him 
the  value  of  simplicity;  and  Rudyard 
Kipling,  who  gave  him  his  irony,  his  flash- 


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light  power,  his  craftsmanship,  his  indus- 
try, invention,  insight,  and  ability  to  make 
a  dream  come  true." 


From  Robert   Louis   Stevenson. 

List  to  R.  L.  S.,  who  once  said:  "There 
is  a  lot  of  the  living  devil  in  Kipling.  It 
is  his  quick-beating  pulse  that  gives  him  a 
position  very  much  apart.  Even  with  his 
love  of  journalistic  effect  there  is  the  tide 
of  life  through  it  all." 

A  Singer  of  Songs. 

It  would  be  interesting  to  know  what  the 
average  professor  of  poetics  really  thinks 
of  Rudyard  Kipling  as  a  national  balladist. 
In  the  eyes  of  the  poetical  academician 
your  true  poet  rhymes  bliss  and  kiss,  and 
dove  and  love,  and  must  or  ought  to  treat 
of  birds,  bees,  and  butterflies,  or  possibly 


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of  souls  and  stars.  As  to  form  or  style, 
Kipling  has  as  yet  written  of  none  of  these, 
nor  An  Epic  of  Hades,  nor  An  Ode  to 
a  Patriot,  and  above  all  he  has  left  his 
personal  and  private  affairs  generously 
alone.  We  have  from  his  pen  no  Songs  to 
My  Wife  or  Lines  to  a  Daughter  to  shatter 
our  good  feeling,  and  from  the  indications 
of  past  and  present  it  is  unlikely  that  we 
ever  shall  have. 


Some   Ditties  Analyzed. 

^''General  Summary. ^^  —  A  satirical  ref- 
erence to  existing  similarities  between  the 
"official  sinning"  of  the  age  that  is  past 
and  gone  and  the  present  day. 

"  The  Story  of  Uriah" — A  story  of  cov- 
etousness. 

"  The  Man  Who  Could  Write:'— P^  Ben- 
gali Babu  who  is  labelled  as  Boanerges 
Blitzen,  a  man  who  would  write. 

"  Rupdiyat  oj  Omar  Kal  'vin"  —  First, 


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a  Persic  pun;  secondly,  parodying  the 
rhythm  and  metre  of  the  Rubaiyat. 

"  Fagett,  M.Py — A  satire  on  the  globe- 
trotter who  speaks  of  the  heat  of  India  as 
the  Asian  Solar  Myth,  and  who  ultimately 
falls  a  prey  to  sand-flies,  mosquitoes,  and 
fever, 

"  La  Nuit  Blanche. " — A  unique  descrip- 
tion of  the  results  accruing  from  a  state  of 
alcoholic  saturation, 

"  Divided  jDesti?iicsy — A  quaint  philoso- 
phy which  compares  the  ascent  of  man  to 
the  original  status  of  the  derided  ape, 

"  Certain  Maxims  of  Uajiz'^  —  Prophe- 
cies and  teachings  full  of  Eastern  lore  and 
learning, 

"  The  Unknown  Goddess "  and  "  A  Bal- 
lad of  Burial"  —  Light  vers  de  societe ; 
locale,  India. 

"  Christinas  in  India.^^ — A  satire  of  pro- 
found depth,  but  possessed  of  a  tender 
pathos  withal, 

"  The  Fall  of  Jock  Gillespie."— A.  humor- 
ous recital  of  moral  backsliding. 


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"  The  Lover's  Litany^ — A  tender  senti- 
ment of  the  love  passion  such  as  is  thought 
by  some  critics  to  be  utterly  beyond  Mr. 
Kipling's  grasp. 

"  L" Envoi." — In  this  instance,  as  in  every 
case  where  Mr.  Kipling  employs  the  term, 
highly  to  be  commended. 

"  The  Ballad  of  Fisher's  Boarding  - 
House" — An  exhibition  of  startling  irony 
and  "  delicious  brutality." 

"  Ttie  Grave  of  the  Hundred  Head," — A 
more  or  less  bloodthirsty  tale  of  Indian 
warfare. 

"  The  Galley-Slave" — Allegorical  verses 
of  a  psychological  and  sociological  import. 


"  Sergeant  What's-His-Name." 

A  most  appreciative  compliment  to  Mr. 
Kipling  is  paid  by  Mr.  G.  W.  Steevens  in 
his  recent  volume  "With  Kitchener  to 
Khartum,"  in  the  following  words : 

"  Finally  we  must  not  forget  *  Sergeant 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  1 09 

What's-His-Name,'  as  with  grateful  appre- 
ciation of  fame  at  Rudyard  Kipling's  hand 
we  are  proud  to  call  him.  Each  battalion 
of  blacks  has  as  an  instructor  a  Brit- 
ish non-commissioned  officer;  he  drills  it, 
teaches  it  to  shoot,  and  makes  soldiers  of 
it.  Perhaps  there  is  no  body  of  men  in  the 
world  who  do  more  unalloyed  and  unlim- 
ited credit  to  their  country  than  the  ser- 
geants with  the  Egyptian  army. 

"  In  many  ways  their  position  is  a  diffi- 
cult one.  Technically  they  are  subordinate 
to  all  the  native  officers  down  to  the  latest- 
joined  sub-lieutenant.  The  slacker  sort  of 
native  officer  resents  the  presence  of  these 
keenly  military  subordinates  and  does  his 
best  to  make  them  uncomfortable.  But  the 
white  sergeant  knows  how  not  to  see  un- 
pleasantness till  it  is  absolutely  unavoid- 
able ;  then  he  knows  how  to  go  quietly  to 
his  colonel  and  assert  his  position  without 
publicly  humiliating  his  superior. 

"When  you  hear  that  the  sergeant  in- 
structors are  highly  endowed  with  tact,  you 


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will  guess  that  in  the  virtues  that  come 
more  naturally  to  the  British  sergeant  they 
shine  exceedingly.  Their  passionate  de- 
votion to  duty  rises  to  a  daily  heroism. 

"  Living  year  in  and  year  out  in  a  climate 
very  hard  upon  Europeans,  they  are  natu- 
rally unable  to  palliate  it  with  the  compar- 
ative luxuries  of  the  officers,  though  it  must 
be  said  that  the  consideration  of  the  officer 
for  his  non-commissioned  comrade  is  one 
of  the  kindliest  of  all  the  many  kindly 
touches  with  which  the  British-Egyptian 
softens  privation  and  war.  But  the  white 
officer  rides  and  '  Sergeant  What's-His- 
Name '  marches.  '  Where  a  nigger  can  go  I 
can  go,'  he  says,  and  tramps  on  through  the 
sun.  .  .  .  He  must  needs  be  a  keen  sol- 
dier or  he  would  not  have  volunteered  for 
the  post,  and  a  good  one  or  he  would  not 
have  got  it.  .  .  .  'After  Tel-el-Kebir,'  said 
a  captain  in  the  British  brigade,  *  one 
of  my  officers  came  to  me  and  talked  of 
joining  the  Egyptian  army.  "For  God's 
sake,  don't!"  said  I,  "don't;  you'll  spend 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  1 1 1 

your  life    thrashing  fellahin    into   action 
with  a  stick."  '  " 


England,  France,  and  America. 

The  Bookman  gives  the  following  com- 
parative points  of  view  of  the  Englishman, 
the  Frenchman,  and  the  American  as  laid 
down  by  Rudyard  Kipling: 

"'The  Englishman,'  says  Mr.  Kipling, 
*  will  die  for  liberty,  but  cares  not  a  jot  for 
equality.  The  Frenchman,  on  the  other 
hand,  doesn't  really  know  what  liberty 
means,  but  he  must  have  equality.  As  for 
the  American,  he  is  indifferent  to  both  lib- 
erty and  equality  and  goes  in  heart  and 
soul  for  fraternity.  This  is  really  the  bane 
of  the  American  nation ;  so  long  as  a  man 
is  a  "  good  fellow  "  he  can  do  anything,  and 
people  will  approve  or  at  least  tolerate  it.' 
There  is  really,"  comments  The  Bookman, 
"  a  considerable  amount  of  truth  in  these 
few  sentences." 


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The   Original  of  Mulvaney. 

There  appeared  in  1895  a  variously 
quoted  newspaper  story  to  the  effect  that 
"William  McMann,  the  original  of  Mul- 
vaney," was  then  a  resident  of  San  Fran- 
cisco. The  incidents  of  his  life  have  been 
very  similar  to  those  related  in  "  Soldiers 
Three,"  and  he  described  Kipling  as  "a 
plucky,  inquisitive  little  fellow  in  the  civil 
service,  who  passed  his  bottle  around 
among  us  privates  and  then  got  us  to  tell 
all  the  yarns  of  the  barrack-room." 

Be  this  a  record  of  a  fact  or  be  it  not, 
and  in  spite  of  its  semblance  of  plausi- 
bility to  those  who  would  like  to  believe 
it,  it  was  of  sufficient  moment  at  the  time 
for  the  editor  of  The  Bookbuyer  to  seek  to 
verify  it  from  Mr.  Kipling  himself.  Here- 
with is  given  his  letter  in  reply: 

Naulakha,  Brattleboro,  Vt., 
June  14th,  1895. 
Dear  Sir  :  In  reply  to  your  letter  of  the 
nth  inst.  I  can  only  say  that  I  know  noth- 


Portrait  Sketch  of  Rudyard  Kipling 
By  the  Marchioness  of  Granby 


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ing  of  Private  McMann  mentioned  in  the 
cutting  you  forward. 

At  the  same  time  I  should  be  loath  to 
interfere  with  a  fellow-romancer's  trade, 
and  if  there  be  such  a  person  as  Private 
McMann,  and  if  he  believes  himself 
to  be  the  original  of  Terence  Mulvaney, 
and  can  tell  tales  to  back  his  claim,  we 
will  allow  he  is  a  good  enough  Mulvaney 
for  the  Pacific  Slope  and  wait  develop- 
ments. 

At  the  same  time  I  confess  his  seems  a 
rather  daring  game  to  play,  for  Terence 
alone,  of  living  men,  knows  the  answer 
to  the  question,  "  How  did  Dearsley  come 
by  the  palanquin  ? "  It  is  not  one  of 
the  questions  that  agitate  the  civilized 
world,  but  for  my  own  satisfaction  I 
would  give  a  good  deal  to  have  it  an- 
swered. If  Private  McMann  can  answer 
it  without  evasions  or  reservations,  he 
will  prove  he  has  some  small  right  to 
be  regarded  as  Mulvaney's  successor. 
Mulvaney  he    cannot   be.     There   is   but 


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one   Terence,  and    he    has  never  set  foot 
in  America  and  never  will. 

Very  sincerely, 

RuDYARD  Kipling. 

On  the  circumstance  and  the  letter  itself 
The  Bookbuyer  commented  at  the  time  as 
follows : 

"This  would  seem  to  settle  McMann. 
But  if  he  or  anybody  else  is  by  way  of  know- 
ing the  rights  about  Dearsley's  palanquin 
— which,  it  will  be  remembered,  became  the 
travelling  shrine  of  Great  Krishna  Mulva- 
ney — he  ought  to  tell  us  all  he  knows." 

A  Later   Comment. 

The  following  by  W.  L.  Alden  would 
seem  to  sustain  the  above-noted  argument: 

"  There  are  novelists  who  copy  the  pecul- 
iarities of  persons  whom  they  have  met 
and  ascribe  them  to  the  puppets  of  their 
stories.  The  man  who  imagines  his  hero 
makes  him  just  what  he  wishes  him  to  be, 


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whereas  if  he  copies  him  he  is  hampered 
by  the  facts  of  character.  Shakespeare  did 
not  copy  Hamlet,  and  Kipling's  Mulvaney 
is  vastly  more  true  to  life  than  he  could 
have  been  if  Kipling  had  simply  painted  a 
portrait  of  an  Irish  soldier  whom  he  had 
met  in  India.  The  camera  in  fiction  is 
an  intolerable  nuisance,  though  there  will 
always  be  people  who  will  please  them- 
selves by  fancying  that  Hamlet  in  real  life 
played  the  violin  in  the  Globe  Theatre  and 
that  Mulvaney  is  still  alive  and  keeps  a 
corner  grocery  in  San  Francisco." 

Mark  Twain  on   Kipling. 

From  an  interesting  speech  by  Mark 
Twain  as  guest  of  the  Authors'  Club  (Lon- 
don), June  12th,  1899: 

"...  I  am  glad  that  the  present  feeling 
between  England  and  America  has  received 
an  added  and  powerful  impulse  from  a  lit- 
erary source,  the  handicraft  of  the  pen,  my 


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guild — the  English-speaking  world's  out- 
burst of  sympathy  when  the  life  of  Rud- 
yard  Kipling  was  threatened,  .  .  . 

"  Last  February,  when  Rudyard  Kipling 
was  ill  in  America,  the  sympathy  which 
was  poured  out  to  him  was  genuine  and 
sincere.  And  I  believe  that  that  which 
cost  Kipling  so  dear  will  bring  England 
and  America  closer  together. 

"  I  have  been  proud  and  pleased  to  see 
this  growing  affection  and  respect  between 
the  two  countries,  and  I  hope  it  will  continue 
to  grow.  I  trust  that  we  will  leave  to  pos- 
terity, if  we  cannot  leave  anything  else,  a 
friendship  between  England  and  America 
that  will  count  for  much. 

"  I  have  been  engaged  for  the  past  eight 
days  in  compiling  a  pun  and  have  brought 
it  here  to  lay  it  at  your  feet,  not  to  ask  for 
your  indulgence,  but  for  your  applause. 
It  is  in  these  words: 

"  Since  England  and  America  have  been 
joined  together  in  Kipling,  may  they  not  be 
severed  in  Twain.'' 


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Kipling   (Limited). 

An  improvisation  on  an  amusing  theme 

from  the  London  Academy : 

["A  Syndicate,  it  is  said,  has  been 
formed  in  America  to  get  complete  control 
in  that  country  of  all  Mr.  Kipling's  writ- 
ings. In  commenting  thereupon  a  con- 
temporary asks.  Why  not  Kipling  (Lim- 
ited) ?  Why  not,  indeed  ?  The  prospectus, 
we  imagine,  might  run  somewhat  on  the 
following  lines."] 

J^IPLING   (Limited). 

(Incorporated  under  the  Companies  Acts,  1862  to 

1898.) 

CAPITAL ;^i,ooo,ooo. 

DIRECTORS. 

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don. 

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London. 

Mr.  Doubleday,  Publisher,  New  York. 

AUDITOR. 

Sir  Walter  Besant. 

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BREAKER. 

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TRIPLING  (Limited). 

PROSPECTUS. 

This  Company  has  been  formed  to  acquire  and 
traffic  in  all  the  writings — prose,  verse,  or  private 
letters — of  the  celebrated  author  Mr.  Rudyard 
Kipling.  Mr.  Kipling,  who  is  at  this  moment  the 
most  famous  writer  now  living,  is  still  young,  and 
there  is  promise  that  he  has  before  him  a  consider- 
able period  of  a'^tive  productivity. 


TRIPLING  (Limited). 

The  Company  proposes  to  acquire  not  only  Mr. 
Kipling's  future  works  and  the  work  on  which  he 
is  at  present  engaged,  but  also  everything  that  may 
already  exist.  Negotiations  are  now  afoot  for  the 
acquisition  of  letters  written  by  Mr.  Kipling  as  a 
child,  for  copy-books  containing  his  earliest  at- 
tempts at  pot-hooks  and  hangers,  and  for  a  vast 
amount  of  other  immature  penmanship.  These  will 
be  from  time  to  time  facsimiled  in  the  illustrated 
papers  and  in  due  course  sold  by  public  auction,  at 
(the  Company  feels  convinced)  a  greatly  enhanced 
figure. 


J^IPLING   (Limited). 

The  Company  will  be  vigilant  that  no  imperial 
crisis  shall  pass  without  poetic  comment  from  Mr. 
Kipling's  pen.  It  trusts  also  that  it  will  be  suc- 
cessful in  inducing  Mr.  Kipling  to  give  to  these 
political  poems  a  form  which  shall  be  easily  par- 
odied :  thus  providing  for  increased  publicity. 


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J^IPLING  (Limited). 

The  Company  is  delighted  to  observe  that  not 
only  are  there  now  before  the  public  two  or  three 
monographs  on  Mr.  Kipling's  work,  but  others  are 
in  preparation.  The  Company  also  views  with 
much  satisfaction  the  circumstance  that  the  action 
now  being  brought  by  Mr.  Kipling  against  an 
American  firm  is  not  likely  to  be  heard  for  eigh- 
teen months.  This  insures  a  continual  succession 
of  articles  and  paragraphs  in  the  public  press — 
during  the  early  stages  of  the  Company's  career. 


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Arrangements  have  been  made  with  the  Biograph 
and  Mutoscope  Company  to  take  living  pictures  of 
Mr.  Kipling  in  a  variety  of  daily  actions,  such  as 
sitting  down  to  his  writing-table,  alighting  from  a 
steamer,  reading  press  notices,  conversing  with  a 
recruiting  sergeant,  and  filling  in  his  income  tax. 
These  pictures  will  be  exhibited  in  all  the  leading 
cities  of  England  and  America,  both  on  the  screen 
and  in  the  penny-in-the-slot  machines. 


TRIPLING  (Limited). 

In  addition  to  such  ordinary  literary  work  as 
novels,  short  stories,  and  verses,  Mr.  Kipling,  it  is 
hoped,  will  agree  to  write  every  year  no  fewer  than 
six  strictly  private  letters  on  debatable  public  ques- 
tions, which  shall,  in  due  course,  find  their  way  into 
the  public  press. 


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TRIPLING   (Limited). 

A  private  wire  will  be  affixed  between  Potsdam 
and  the  Company's  offices  to  facilitate  the  trans- 
mission of  telegrams  to  Mr.  Kipling  from  the  Ger- 
man Emperor. 

The  Royal  Academy. 

In  1898  Mr.  Kipling  was  expected  to  re- 
spond to  the  toast  of  *'  Literature  "  at  the 
Royal  Academy  banquet.  Says  report:  Sir 
Edward  Poynter,  who  is  an  uncle  of  Mr. 
Kipling,  had  a  little  shyness  upon  his  in- 
stallation in  the  presidency  in  bringing  a 
nephew  so  promptly  forward.  Commenting 
thereon,  a  literary  journal  said:  "We  read 
a  great  deal  about  nepotism  and  the  like; 
but  nobody  has  given  names  to  the  oppos- 
ing vices — the  neglect  of  men  of  genius 
because  they  happen  to  be  of  kith — a  crime 
which  is  everywhere  written  across  the  his- 
tory of  achievement  in  the  arts.  Sir  Ed- 
ward, I  can  assure  him  for  his  consolation, 
would  sooner  be  accused  of  that  if  Mr. 
Kipling  were  not  down  for  '  Literature ' 
than  of  any  favoritism  if  he  were.     And 


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when  people  have  heard  Mr.  Kipling  at  the 
Academy,  and  think  of  the  occasions  when 
they  might  have  secured  him,  they  will  feel 
some  of  the  chagrin  over  a  neglected  op- 
portunity which  you  can  imagine  they  felt 
in  Printing-House  Square  when  they  read 
the  splendidly  inspiriting  series  of  articles 
on  '  A  Fleet  in  Being.'  .  .  . 

"  Mr.  Kipling  has  done  most  things  now, 
but  he  has  yet  to  make  his  reputation  as  an 
after-dinner  speaker.  It  is  well  within  his 
own  capabilities  to  make  it,  as  any  one  who 
has  heard  him  on  his  rarely  venturing  oc- 
casions. Even  his  nervousness  gives  him 
a  force  often  denied  to  facility;  and  of  late 
he  has  cultivated  voice-production  so  well 
as  to  have  astonished  the  navy — this  when 
he  recited  his  '  Ballads '  on  the  Pelorus  in 
Eantry  Bay." 

A   Soldier's  Compliment. 

The  private  soldier  at  the  Cape  who 
greeted   Mr.    Kipling    so    felicitously    in 


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verse  upon  his  arrival  in  that  part  of  the 
world  has  sent  home  to  an  English  paper 
a  Barrack-room  Ballad  of  his  own.  It  has 
merit  enough  to  stand  alone  at  least,  and 
the  subject,  oddly  enough,  had  been  over- 
looked by  Mr.  Kipling — the  death  of  a 
soldier  and  the  regiment's  sudden  change 
of  attitude  toward  him.  Herewith  are 
given  two  stanzas : 

GINGER  JAMES. 
'E'd  little  brains,  I'll  swear. 
Beneath  'is  ginger  'air; 
'Is  personal    attractions — well,    they    wasn't   very 
large; 
' E  was  first  in  evry  mill. 
Art  a  foul-mouthed  cur — but  still 
We' II  forgive  'im  all  'is  drawbacks — '<?  'as  taken  'is 
discharge. 

' E  once  got  fourteen  days 
For  drunken,  idle  7vays, 
An'  the  colonel  said  the  nasty  things  that  colonels 
sometimes  say; 
' E  called  him  to  'is  face 
The  regiment's  disgrace — 
But  the  colonel  took  'is  'at  off  when  'e passed  'im  by 
to-day. 


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The   Emperor  of  Germany. 

"  The  German  Emperor,  who  is  not  afraid 
of  France  or  of  the  Socialists,  is  not  afraid 
of  the  obvious  either.  I  admire  him  for  it 
— immensely.  He  is  a  brave  fellow.  For 
he  must  know  perfectly  well  that  when  he 
sends  a  telegram  of  congratulation  to  a 
convalescent  genius  everybody  will  say: 
*  Of  course ! '  '  How  like  him ! '  And  peo- 
ple go  on  to  speak  of  these  acts  of  courtesy 
as  though  he  had  some  sinister  selfish  mo- 
tive in  performing  them.  .  .  . 

"  His  position  entitles  him  to  notice 
people  with  whom  he  is  not  acquainted.  I 
think  he  sets  a  good  example.  Not — 
Heaven  forbid! — that  we  should  all  start 
telegraphing  to  strangers:  we  are  not  all 
emperors.  But  he  teaches  us  not  to  fear 
the  obvious  in  little  speeches  of  courtesy, 
and  I  like  to  think  of  him  in  this  gentle 
character.  I  am  reminded  of  this  simply 
by  a  very  obvious  and  good-natured  tele- 
gram which  he  recently  sent  to  a  man  of 


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genius;  but  should  you  have  forgotten  this, 
before  these  remarks  reach  your  eye  it  is 
possible  he  will  have  sent  another." — G. 
S.  Street  in  "  Pall  Mall  Budget:' 

**  Our  Lady   of  the  Snows." 

Mr.  Kipling  is  an  author  who  gives  his 
impressions  of  things  just  as  he  sees  them, 
without,  we  fancy,  much  regard  as  to 
whether  it  will  please  his  readers  or  not. 
Mr.  Kipling  once  wrote  some  impressions 
of  America  which,  to  put  it  mildly,  did 
not  at  that  time  meet  the  approval  of  the 
reading  public.  Mr.  Kipling  thought  to 
compliment  Canadians  by  writing  his  poem 
"  Our  Lady  of  the  Snows."  "  We  recog- 
nize," says  a  Canadian  periodical,  "that 
there  is  at  t^mes  a  good  deal  of  snow  in 
Canadc,  but  we  accept  Mr.  Kipling's  poem 
in  the  spirit  in  which  it  was  offered.  We 
believe,  however,  there  is  another  side  to 
the  question,  and  that  Canada  has  the  finest 
climate  in  the  world."     And  as  if  to  coun- 


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teract  this  influence,  an  enterprising  Cana- 
dian publisher  has  recently  issued  a  publi- 
cation entitled  "Our  Lady  of  the  Sun- 
shine." 

The  Small   Boy   of  Quebec. 

The  following  appeared  in  an  issue  of 
Wee  Willie  Winkie,  a  Scots  magazine  for 
children  founded  by  the  Countess  of  Aber- 
deen, and  was  attributed  to  Rudyard  Kip- 
ling: 

"  There  was  once  a  small  boy  of  Quebec 
Who  was  buried  in  snow  to  the  neck. 
When  asked,  '  Are  you  friz  ?  ' 
He  replied,  '  Yes,  I  is. 
But  we  don't  call  this  cold  in  Quebec' " 

"The  Blind   Bug." 

Comparison  is  made  in  The  Academy 
between  the  following  poem  by  Rudyard 
Kipling,  which  originally  appeared  in  The 
Natiofial  Obsemer  in  1890,  and  the  later 
verses  appended  as  a  dedication  to  "  The 
Naulahka." 


126  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

Further  comment  is  superfluous,  but  it 
makes  an  interesting  study  for  Kiplingites. 

THE    BLIND   BUG. 

(County  of  London  Sessions,  lyth  and  i8th  De- 
cember, i8go.) 

Beyond  the  path  of  the  outmost  sun,  through  utter 

darkness  hurled 
Further  than  ever  comet  flared  or  vagrant  star-dust 

swirled, 
Long  live  such  as  sailed  and  fought  and  ruled  and 

loved  and  made  our  world. 

They  are  purged  of  pride  because  they  died,  they 

know  the  worth  of  their  bays  ; 
They  sit  at  wine  with  the  Maidens  Nine  and  the 

Gods  of  their  elder  days  ; 
It  is  their  will  to  serve  or  be  still,  as  fitteth  our 

Father's  praise. 

'Tis  theirs  to  sweep  through  Azrael's  keep,  where 

the  clanging  legions  are. 
To  buffet  a  path  through  the  Pit's  red  wrath  when 

God  goes  forth  to  war, 
Or  hang  with  the  reckless  seraphim  on  the  rein  of 

a  red-maned  star. 

They  take  their  mirth  in  the  joy  of  the  Earth,  thej 
do  not  grieve  for  her  pain  ; 


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They  know  of  toil  and  the  end  of  toil  ;  they  know 

God's  law  is  plain. 
So  they  whistle  the  Devil  to  make  them  sport,  who 

know  that  sin  is  vain. 

And  ofttimes  cometh  our  wise  Lord  God,  Master  of 
every  trade, 

And  tells  them  tales  of  His  daily  toil,  of  Edens 
newly  made, 

And  they  rise  to  their  feet  as  He  passes  by,  gentle- 
men unafraid. 

To  those  who  are  cleansed  of  black  Desire,  Sorrow, 

and  Lust,  and  Shame — 
Gods,  for  they  know  the  heart  of  men  ;  men,  for  they 

stooped  to  fame — 
To  these,  a  peer  'mid  his  courtly  peers,  the  Curate 

of  Meudon  came. 

"  I  have  fished  for  frogs  in  the  stagnant  dark,  and 

here  is  my  catch,"  quoth  he, 
The   soul  of  the  little   Lawyer  Clerk   that  whines 

like  an  angry  bee. 
"  Brethren  all  " — and  they  saw  it  crawl  in  the  opened 

palm  released — 
"  This  bug  hath  flown  from  a  New  Sorbonne  to  call 

me  a  filthy  priest. 

"  Yea,  it  must  turn  to  a  guild  to  learn  the  nature  of 
right  and  wrong. 


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And  wear  its  Soul  at  its  buttonhole,  and  finger  it  all 

day  long, 
And  lose  its  Soul  if  a  gipsy  troll  the  catch  of  a  lewd 

old  song. " 

He  flipped  the  blind  bug  into  the  dark,  and  grinned 

Gargantua's  grin  : 
The  Great  Gods  heaved  them  back,  and  laughed  till 

heaven  shook  to  the  din — 
And  oh  !    to  have  heard  the  Great  Gods   laugh  I 

had  sinned  the  blind  bug's  sin. 

The  Kipling  Boom. 

The  great  disadvantage  of  ''  booms  "  and 
popular  outbursts  of  applause  is  the  almost 
inevitable  reaction  which  follows.  Al- 
ready The  Saturday  Review  is  warning  Mr. 
Rudyard  Kipling  that  he  would  do  well  to 
try  to  keep  "his  name  and  his  concerns 
out  of  the  papers  for  some  time  to  come." 
To  The  Saturday s  va\xidi  "there  has  been 
a  little  too  much  about  him  in  the  gossip- 
ing columns  of  the  lesser  press  of  late  for 
his  moral  or  intellectual  iiealth."  While 
Mr.  Kipling's  exceptional  talent  is  fully 


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acknowledged,  it  is  stated  that  he  "has 
been  and  is  habitually  overpraised.  The 
language  adopted  regarding  him  would  be 
excessive,  because  unbalanced  and  irra- 
tional, if  it  were  applied  to  Sir  Walter 
Scott,  to  Tennyson,  or  to  Victor  Hugo." 
Two  elements,  we  are  told,  have  combined 
to  give  Mr.  Kipling  his  position  among 
contemporary  writers — his  energy  and  his 
variety.  But  these,  it  is  added,  would  not 
in  themselves  account  for  a  quarter  of  his 
popularity.  He  is  a  national  hero,  not  be- 
cause he  is  a  great  writer,  but  because  he 
goes  "bald-headed,"  as  the  Americans  say, 
for  the  national  ideal  of  empire-building. 

"  All  that  is  utilitarian  and  materialistic," 
says  The  Saturday^  "  all  that  is  inimical  to 
thought  and  favorable  to  action,  all  the  ex- 
ternal rowdiness  and  latent  puritan  ism  with 
which  this  century  is  closing  so  surpris- 
ingly in  England,  find  their  exact  echo  and 
confirmation  in  Mr.  Kipling's  books."  It 
is  pointed  out,  what  competent  critics  have 
all  along  known,  that  in  tender  sentiment 


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or  philosophical  reflection  the  author  of 
"  Soldiers  Three  "  is  easily  beaten  by  many 
story-tellers,  past  and  present.  The  tender 
graces  are  not  his,  and  if  the  fickle  public 
taste  should  change  our  contemporary 
trembles  to  think  what  would  become  of 
him.  But  is  it  not  possible  that  Mr.  Kip- 
ling could  change  also?  In  any  case,  he 
has  already  received  a  handsome  share  of 
the  good  things  of  authorship. 

The  New   Poetry. 

Poetry  is  the  best  measure  of  literary  art; 
for  in  it  we  have  the  highest  conception  of 
life  expressed  with  the  utmost  truth  and 
beauty.  If  there  is  an  inevitable  canon  of 
art  it  certainly  obtains  here,  and  the  poet 
least  of  all  artists  can  afford  to  play  fast 
and  loose  with  it.  But  the  critic,  too,  must 
bear  in  mind  that  careless  estimates  are 
apt  to  seem  satisfactory  at  a  time  when  the 
world  appears  not  only  willing  but  anxious 
to  get  rid  of  the  law. 


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We  know  well  enough  that  popularity 
does  not  necessarily  indicate  literary  value ; 
and  Mr.  Kipling  complacently  suggests  this 
in  his  refrain  phrase,  "  Is  it  art?  "  a  phrase 
embodying  no  end  of  triumphant  defiance 
of  old  *"Omer"  and  his  "bloomin'  lyre," 
together  with  a  broad  grimace  at  Mr.  Wil- 
liam Watson  and  all  the  other  "  regular " 
poets.  One  who  applies  history  to  criti- 
cism with  a  fair  degree  of  insight  will  not 
make  great  eyes  at  Mr.  Kipling's  success. 
Sterne  and  his  "  Sentimental  Journey  "  were 
almost  as  successful  on  much  the  same  con- 
ditions —  to  wit,  go  as  you  please  and 
always  break  the  rules;  but  then  Sterne 
was  not  a  poet  and  Mr.  Kipling  is,  and  a 
wonderful  one  at  that;  so  is  Bret  Harte. 
The  question  to  be  considered  does  not  in- 
volve the  poet,  however,  but  poetry.  Is  it 
possible  for  genius,  even  as  great  as  Harte's 
or  Kipling's,  to  make  great  poetry  by  the 
barrack-room  recipe  or  the  Heathen  Chi- 
nee pattern? 

"  When  'Omer  smote  'is  bloomin'  lyre" 


132  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

is  a  verse  by  which  this  thing  is  to  be  tested. 
Already  some  of  our  schoolmen  are  decry- 
ing Greek  study  in  one  breath  and  in  the 
next  recommending  Mulvaney. 

We  have  heard  a  great  deal  lately  about 
virility.  First  it  was  Flaubert's  virility, 
next  it  was  Tolstoi's,  then  came  Ibsen's, 
followed  closely  by  Zola's,  and  now  we 
have  Mr.  Kipling's.  It  is  enough  to  say 
that  Mr,  Kipling's  is  genuine.  There 
never  was  a  more  manly  poet  than  Kipling, 
if  we  take  masculine  energy  as  the  test  of 
manhood.  Almost  everything  that  he  has 
written  fairly  struts  with  a  force  suggestive 
of  hard  muscles  and  sound  nerves.  More- 
over, his  poetry  holds  up  a  subject  with  a 
sort  of  athletic  ease  that  somehow  adds  im- 
mensely to  our  sense  of  its  weight.  And 
yet  it  must  appear  to  the  far-sighted  critic 
that  all  of  this  energy  and  vigor  of  genius 
will  be  dissipated  to  no  permanent  artistic 
effect  if  Mr.  Kipling  shall  continue  to  pre- 
fer "  patois,"  slang,  "  argot,"  and  the  forms 
of  illiteracy  to  the  higher,  nay,  the  highest, 


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literary  expression.  No  matter  how  popu- 
lar or  how  effective  his  "  dialect  "  may  be 
at  present,  it  will  not  be  so  when  present 
conditions  pass,  as  pass  they  soon  must. 
Art  respects  no  man's  genius  until  that 
genius  respects  art;  and  it  is  the  marriage 
of  art  and  genius  that  insures  permanent, 
universal  acceptance.  We  must  admit  that 
our  poetry  stands  in  need  of  fresh  blood,  so 
to  speak,  and  whatever  it  is  that  gives  gen- 
uine significance  to  art.  Mr.  Kipling  has, 
in  some  considerable  degree,  met  this  need ; 
but  he  has  not  met  it  in  the  spirit  of  uni» 
versal  art;  his  success,  if  it  does  not  de- 
pend largely  upon  mere  jargon,  has  the  ap- 
pearance of  owing  a  great  deal  to  it.  From 
Homer  down  to  Tennyson  the  greatest  poets 
have  invariably  been  masters  of  simple, 
correct,  and  refined  speech,  which  they 
made  into  literature  of  universal,  perma- 
nent appeal.  We  may  dance  to  Mr.  Kip- 
ling's timely  and  vigorous  grotesqueries  of 
style  and  conceit;  but  after  us,  what? — 
Maurice  Thompson  in  "  The  Independent.^^ 


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Kipling's  Literary  Productiveness. 

A  critic  has  lately  called  attention  to 
Kipling's  astonishing  output  in  published 
books  as  compared  with  that  of  other  cele- 
brated authors  of  the  same  age.  Among 
those  whose  career  was  terminated  early 
one  naturally  thinks  of  Byron,  who  died  at 
thirty-six;  but  the  writings  of  Byron  may 
easily  be  gathered  into  a  single  volume. 
Scott  at  thirty-three — Kipling's  present 
age — was  only  writing  the  *'  Lay  of  the  Last 
Minstrel,"  " Marmion."  "The  Lady  of  the 
Lake,"  and  "  Rokeby  " ;  he  did  not  begin 
his  splendid  series  of  novels  until  he  was 
forty-three.  Dickens  at  the  same  age  as 
Kipling  had  finished  only  his  "  Sketches  by 
Boz,"  "Pickwick,"  "The  Old  Curiosity 
Shop,"  "  Barnaby  Rudge,"  "Oliver  Twist," 
"  American  Notes,"  and  "  Martin  Chuzzle- 
wit."  Thackeray  had  written  but  seven 
books,  and  these  not  famous  ones.  Haw- 
thorne at  three-and-thirty  had  produced 
only    "Twice-Told   Tales."     Cooper   had 


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only  "  Precaution  "  and  "  The  Spy  "  to  his 
credit  as  an  author.  Irving  had  only  two 
books,  and  Howells  only  three,  at  the  same 
period  of  life.  The  titles  of  Kipling's  print- 
ed works  in  prose  and  verse  would  fill  sev- 
eral columns.  Already  an  American  house 
is  bringing  out  a  library  edition  of  his  col- 
lected writings;  and,  as  a  further  reminder 
of  his  fame  and  rank  as  a  classic,  the  first 
edition  of  one  of  his  early  works  is  almost 
unobtainable,  and  a  copy  of  it  commanded 
a  high  price  the  other  day  in  London. 

A  French  critic,  M.  Andre  Chevillon, 
finds  in  the  conciseness  and  nervous  energy 
of  Kipling's  style  a  quality  peculiarly 
French.  In  a  recent  number  of  the  Revue 
de  Paris  he  says : 

*'  He  is  crisp,  powerful,  compact,  and 
keen,  like  Merimee,  but  much  more  sin- 
ewy, instantaneous,  and  cruel."  Kipling 
writes  of  the  Orient,  says  M.  Chevillon, 
"not  like  our  Loti,  with  a  passive  and 
semi-neurasthenic  melancholy,  a  shudder 
of    pain,    and    a    voluptuousness    at    the 


136  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

thought  of  death  and  the  great  eternal 
forces,  but  like  a  man  of  action  who  sees 
in  those  forces  only  obstacles  to  exercise 
his  activities,  whet  his  will,  fortify  his  per- 
sonality, define  and  harden  his  self-re- 
spect."— Literary  Digest. 

The  Kipling  Collector. 

Mr.  Temple  Scott,  in  his  last  volume  of 
"  Book  Sales,"  makes  interesting  comments, 
especially  in  regard  to  modern  writers  and 
modern  editions  de  luxe.  He  thinks  that  the 
multiplication  of  editiofis  de  luxe  which  was 
so  noticeable  a  little  while  ago,  and  is  now 
so  significantly  unnoticeable,  was  largely 
brought  about  by  the  rise  in  the  value  of 
the  works  of  Stevenson  and  Mr.  Kipling: 

"  What  is  good  for  such  writers'  works  is, 
surely,  think  the  publishers,  good  for  other 
writers,  and  they  begin  by  proclaiming  the 
issues  of  fine  editions  of  Fielding,  Smol- 
lett, Whyte-Melville,  Meredith,  and  the 
rest.     What  is  the  result?     One  needs  but 


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to  look  over  the  shelves  of  the  booksellers' 
shops  to  answer  this  question.  There  these 
works  stand,  neglected  by  the  true  book 
collector,  and  out  of  reach  of  the  man  of 
slender  purse.  It  is  no  use  to  attempt  to 
force  or  foist  a  fashion." 

The  collector  of  passing  fashions  in  books 
is  warned  that  he  must  decide  whether  he 
is  seeking  pleasure  or  profit.  If  profit,  then 
"he  must  watch  his  time  and  realize  at 
once."  At  present  there  is  not  much  new 
literature  that  offers  itself  to  the  small  col- 
lector with  a  speculative  intention  at  the 
back  of  his  head.  But  the  works  of  Ste- 
venson and  Kipling  provide  a  little  mild 
excitement,  and  Mr.  Scott  advises  their 
acquisition.  "  Of  Kipling's  works,  prose 
especially,  would  I  urge  this.  Such  books 
as  the  two  Jungle  Books  and  the  illus- 
trated volumes  of  '  Soldiers'  Tales '  and 
'Captains  Courageous'  will  certainly  be 
sought  for,  as  will  also  the  pamphlet  on 
'A  Fleet  in  Being.'  About  Stevenson  it  is 
difficult  to  decide.     The  very  rare  Davos 


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Platz  pamphlets  are  certain  to  receive  a 
special  attention,  if  only  for  the  unique 
circumstances  which  attended  their  publi- 
cation; but  I  would  hesitate  to  say  that 
all  his  publications  will  ever  become  very 
dear."  The  actual  rise  in  the  prices  of 
Mr.  Kipling's  works,  for  several  years,  is 
shown  by  Mr.  Scott  in  a  table,  a  portion  of 
which  we  take  leave  to  quote : 


1896. 

1897. 

898. 

£      s.    d. 

I 

s.     d. 

I 

s.     d. 

Departmental  Ditties  (1886). 

20 

15    0 

19 

0    0 

lb 

0    0 

10 
14 

0  0 
0    0 

Plain   Tales   from  the  Hills 

(1888) 

4     0 
7     6 

Letters  of  Marque  (i8gi)  . . . 

I     14    0 

5 

6 

10    0 

6 

10    0 

6 
6 

15  0 
IS    0 

Story  of  the  Gadsbys  (1890).. 

0 
0 

10    0 
12    0 

Phantom  'Rickshaw  (1890)  "1 

The  aver- 
age price 

I 
I 

0    0 
10    0 

I 

II    0 

In  Black  and  White  (1890) 

rose  to 

. . . . 

0 

19    0 

\ 

about  5s. 

0 

13    0 

\ 

or  7s.  6d. 

0 

10    0 

Under  the  Deodars  (1890).  J 

each. 

I 

3     0 

I 
I 

5  0 
10    0 

Wee  Willie  Winkie  (1890). . . 

.... 

I 

0    0 

2 

2    0 

City  of  Dreadful  Night  (1891) 

2 

6    0 

% 

12    0 

Barrack-Room  Ballads  (1892, 

L.P.) 

Olio 

0170 
I       S     0 

I 

0    0 

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We  have  glanced  only  at  a  few  modern  de- 
velopments. Mr.  Scott,  of  course,  directs 
many  of  his  remarks  to  the  higher  book* 
collecting.  Undoubtedly  this  "  is  becom- 
ing more  and  more  a  pastime  for  the  very 
rich."  And  the  speculative  fever,  which 
is  spoiling  cricket  and  many  another  pas- 
time, is  advancing  here  with  giant  strides. 
"  What  was  once  the  gentle  exercise  of  the 
amiable  among  the  leisured  in  position,  or 
of  the  quiet  in  mind,  is  forming  a  new 
pabulum  for  the  retired  man  of  business 
who  cannot  find  rest  for  the  speculative 
instincts  he  satisfied  on  the  Stock  Exchange 
and  elsewhere.  .  .  .  He  is  the  collector- 
ghoul." 

Most  Famous  Man 

in  the  World. 

Mr.  W.  D.  Howells,  in  The  North  Amer- 
ican Review  (May,  1899),  asks,  "What  is 
the  poetry  first  in  the  mind  and  heart  of 
1899?  "  and  answers  himself  thus: 


140  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

*'I  believe  I  have  said  what,  in  naming 
Mr.  Kipling,  who  is  at  this  moment,  possi- 
bly, the  most  famous  man  in  the  world,  and 
whose  work,  in  some  sort  of  measure,  is 
known  almost  as  widely  as  his  name.  All 
must  own  this,  whatever  any  may  think  of 
his  work;  and  it  seems  to  me  that  the  fact 
ought  to  dispose  of  the  doubt  whether  this 
is  a  poetry-reading  age.  .  .  .  It  is  a  mighty 
and  a  lusty  note,  full  of  faith  and  hope; 
and  it  is  the  note  which  makes  Mr.  Kip- 
ling famous  wherever  an  Anglo-Saxon  word 
is  spoken  or  an  Anglo-Saxon  shot  is  fired; 
it  stirs  the  blood  both  of  Briton  and  Amer- 
ican; and  it  is  not  the  poet's  reproach  if 
they  forget  the  deeper  meanings  of  his 
song.  He  says  what  he  came  to  say;  he 
happened  in  the  time  which  could  hear  his 
voice;  he  does  not  so  much  teach  as  tell; 
but  no  doubt  the  time  will  come  when  the 
warning  in  his  message  will  be  plain  to 
senses  now  holden.  It  may  not  be  plain 
to  our  American  senses  till  we  have  tram- 
pled into  the  red  mire  of  tropic  morasses 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  141 

the  faith  in  men  which  made  us  the  hope 
of  men;  but  that  is  not  the  blame  of  a  poet 
who  has  read  us  and  said  us  more  keenly 
than  any  alien  before.^' 

"  Academy  "   Anecdotes. 

{From  the  London  Academy.) 
A   BELATED    KINDNESS. 
(The  McGill  University,  Montreal,  has  conferred 
the  degree  of  LL.D.  upon  Mr.  Rudyard  Kipling.) 
Why  have  you  been  so  long,  McGill  ? 
Where  were  you  when  our  friend  was  ill  ? 
It's  surely  wrong  to  wait  until 
He's  well  to  "  doctor  "  him. 

Mr.  Kipling,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  is  par- 
ticularly pleased  that  this  honor,  the  first 
of  its  kind  (and  the  first,  doubtless,  of  a 
long  list),  should  come  to  him  from  the 
Lady  of  Snows,  or,  as  he  puts  it  in  his  let- 
ter of  acceptance,  from  "  the  elder  sister  of 
the  new  nations  within  the  empire." 

Apropos  of  the  new  Doctor  of  Laws  the 
Duke  of  York  is  said  to  have  remarked, 


142  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

concerning  the  attention  paid  by  the  papers 
to  his  recent  indisposition:  "Really,  I 
might  be  Kipling." 

The   Laws  of  the  Jungle. 

"  Will  you  please  tell  an  old  reader  what 
the  laws  oj  the  jungle  were,  exactly  as  Kip- 
ling gave  them  ?  " 

The  law  of  the  jungle  was  first  given 
by  Kipling  in  the  first  story  in  the  Jun- 
gle Book,  "  Mowgli's  Brothers."  Mowgli 
learned,  for  example,  that  "  the  law  of  the 
jungle,  which  never  orders  anything  with- 
out a  reason,  forbids  every  beast  to  eat  man 
except  when  he  is  killing  to  show  his  chil- 
dren how  to  kill,  and  then  he  must  hunt 
outside  the  hunting-grounds  of  his  pack  or 
tribe  " ;  and  that  "  the  law  of  the  jungle  lays 
down  very  clearly  that  any  wolf  may,  when 
he  marries,  withdraw  from  the  pack  he  be- 
longs to,  but  as  soon  as  his  cubs  are  old 
enough  to  stand  on  their  feet  he  must  bring 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  143 

them  to  the  pack  council,  which  is  gener- 
ally held  once  a  month  at  full  moon,  in 
order  that  the  other  wolves  may  identify 
them."  In  the  second  Jungle  Book  Kip- 
ling gives  in  verse  a  few  of  the  laws  that 
applied  to  the  wolves. — New  York  Times. 

Imperial  Majesty  and 

Imperial  Minstrel. 

["  The  German  Emperor  has  latterly  been  read- 
ing Kipling's  poems  aloud  to  his  family  with  much 
appreciation." —  WestJiiinstei-  Gazette.^ 

I've  dared  against  you,  Wilhelm, 
The  rhythmic  shaft  to  drive 

Of  satire  keen 

As  oft,  I  ween, 
As  any  bold  scribe  alive. 
But  though  your  moods  "  majestic" 
My  Muse  might  mock  and  ban, 

I  have  never  ceased 

In  the  very  least 
To  admire  you  as  a  man  ! 

And  now  I'm  prouder,  Wilhelm, 
Of  you  than  e'er  before. 

As  I  hear  the  tale 
How  you  oft  regale 


144  ^^^  Kipling  Note  Book 

Your  "  flock  "  when  "  The  Day's  Work's"  o'er  ! 
Your  keen  delight  in  the  ' '  Kipling  " 
You  declaim  to  your  family  hive 

Fully  proves  that  you 

To  our  race's  true 
Wealth  and  welfare  are  well  alive  ! 

I'm  holding  no  brief  for  Kipling, 
And  I'm  holding  no  brief  for  you  ; 

But  I  hold  the  creed 

That  I've  power  to  read 
Your  sentiments  through  and  through, 
As  the  vigorous  rhymes  of  Rudyard 
You  with  vigorous  lungs  recite 

(Putting  accent  fine 

On  each  fire-fraught  line) 
Round  your  homely  hearth  by  night  ! 

You  have  often  been  censured,  Wilhelm, 
As  the  King  of  Egotist  Kings  ; 
But  your  high  regard 
For  Advancement's  Bard 
The  lie  at  that  libel  flings  ! 
All  emperors  crave  more  empire  ; 

But  the  king  who  from  Kipling  gleans 
His  world-message  grand 
Won't  wish  to  expand 
His  domains  by  unworthy  means  ! 

— English  Paper. 


Rudyard  Kipling 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  145 

J.   Rudyard   Kipling 

From  an  open  letter  to  the  New  York 
Times,  June  4th,  i8g8,  we  quote  the  following: 

"...  Many  readers  of  the  works  of  Mr. 
Kipling  may  not  be  aware  that  there  is  a 
baptismal  '  J '  prefixed  to  *  Rudyard.' 
Although  Mr.  Kipling  abandoned  this  on 
the  title-page  of  even  his  earliest  book, 
he  has  frequently  used  it  in  correspond- 
ence. .  ." 


The  Ten-Inch  Gun 

The  following   is  quoted  from  the  New 
York  Times  of  July  23d,  1899: 

"  The  New  Orleans  critic  who  objects  to 
Kipling's  lines — 

"  '  But  you  can  handle  a  ten-inch  gun 
That  carries  seven  mile, ' 

and  deplores  having  to  *  give  Rudyard 
away  in  this  cold-blooded  fashion,'  is  more 
amusing  than  convincing.     Ballistics  and 


146  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

prosody  are  both  outside  my  field,  yet  I 
should  like  to  suggest:  First — That  Kip- 
ling was  not  forced  by  considerations  of 
rhythm  to  choose  '  seven.'  He  could  as 
well  have  written  '  that  carries  eleven 
mile,'  but  the  fact  that  he  did  not  shows 
that  he  had  good  reason.  In  point  of  fact, 
second,  the  ten -inch  gun  does  carry  '  seven 
mile,'  and  not  ten  or  eleven,  under  ordi- 
nary service  conditions  of  charge  and  possi- 
ble elevation  on  shipboard.  The  latter  is 
usually  ten  to  eighteen  degrees,  whereas 
the  record  range  of  twelve  and  a  half  miles 
at  Meppen,  quoted  by  the  wise  critic,  was 
established  from  a  land  carriage  with  an 
elevation  of  forty  degrees.  The  data  are 
given  in  The  Times  of  last  Sunday,  in  the 
article  on  the  new  sixteen-inch  gun.  No 
turret  would  permit  the  training  of  great 
guns  at  such  an  angle  unless  recourse 
were  had,  as  is  very  rarely  done,  to  the 
expedient  of  heeling  the  ship.  So  that  we 
may  conclude  that  Rudyard,  as  usual,  knew 
what  he  was  about  and  wrote  his  '  pome ' 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  147 

without  pulling  his  hat  down  defiantly  and 
without  establishing  '  a  new  law  in  ballis- 
tics.' 

"Kipling's  range-finder  is  all  right;  it 
is  the  New  Orleans  man's  fault-finder  that 
is  out  of  focus." 

The  verses  in  question  are  those  attrib- 
uted to  have  been  inscribed  by  Mr.  Kip- 
ling in  a  volume  presented  to  Capt.  Rob- 
ley  D.  Evans,  of  the  U.  S.  S.  Iowa,  and  are 
here  given : 

"  Zogbaum  draws  with  a  pencil, 
And  I  do  things  with  a  pen, 
But  you  sit  up  in  a  conning-tower, 
Bossing  eight  hundred  men. 

"  Zogbaum  takes  care  of  his  business, 
And  I  take  care  of  mine, 
But  you  take  care  of  ten  thousand  tons, 
Sky-hooting  through  the  brine. 

"  Zogbaum  can  handle  his  shadows, 
And  I  can  handle  my  style, 
But  you  can  handle  a  ten-inch  gun 
To  carry  seven  mile. 


148  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

"  To  him  that  hath  shall  be  given, 

And  that's  why  these  books  are  sent 
To  the  man  who  has  lived  more  stories 
Than  Zogbaum  or  I  could  invent." 

A  critic  had  ridiculed  the  verses,  and  in 
fact  repudiated  that  a  ten-inch  gun  could 
"carry  seven  mile.*'  This  called  forth  the 
justification  from  the  correspondent  of  The 
Times  as  herein  given. 


"  The  Courting  of  Dinah  Shadd  " 

THE  COURTING  OF  DINAH 
SHADD  II  AND  OTHER  STO- 
RIES II  BY  II  RUDYARD  KIP- 
LING II  AUTHOR  OF  II  "PLAIN 
TALES  FROM  THE  HILLS," 
ETC.  II  WITH  II  A  BIOGRAPHI- 
CAL AND  CRITICAL  SKETCH  || 
BY  II  ANDREW  LANG  ||  [DEVICE] 
II  NEW  YORK  II  HARPER  & 
BROTHERS,  FRANKLIN 
SQUARE  II  1890. 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  149 

Collation. — Crown  8vo,  pp.  xii,  182,  con- 
sisting of  portrait  with  blank  recto, 
pp.  i,  ii ;  title  as  above,  with  blank  re- 
verse, pp.  iii,  iv;  table  of  contents, 
with  blank  reverse,  pp.  v,  vi ;  sketch 
of  Rudyard  Kipling,  pp.  vii  to  xii; 
"The  Courting  of  Dinah  Shadd,"  pp. 
I  to  36;  "The  Man  Who  Was,"  pp. 
37  to  59 ;  "A  Conference  of  the  Pow- 
ers," pp.  60  to  80 ;  "  Without  Benefit 
of  Clergy,"  pp.  81  to  1 16 ;  "On  Green- 
how  Hill,"  pp.  144  to  182;  followed 
by  two  pages  of  advertising. 

Issued  in  pale  blue  wrappers,  trimmed 
edges,  the  front  cover  repeating  the  title, 
and  dated  September,  1890.  The  volume 
formed  No.  680  of  the  "  Franklin  Square 
Library,"  and  was  priced  30  cents. 

The  sketch  by  Mr.  Lang  originally  ap- 
peared in  Harper's  Weekly.  The  bio- 
graphical portion  was  supplied,  it  is  said, 
by  Mr.  Kipling  himself,  to  whom  Mr.  Lang 
had  written  for  such  information. 


150  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

Thus  the  volume  is  also  a  "  first  edition 
Lang,"  Were  Mr.  Lang  to  write  such  a 
sketch  now,  he  would  probably  omit  the 
line  (p.  xi)  ;  "  I  do  not  anticipate  for  Mr. 
Kipling  a  very  popular  popularity." 

The  foregoing  is  the  preamble  to  a 
charming  little  brochure  of  interest  to 
Kiplingites,  which  was  privately  printed, 
for  subscribers  only,  in  New  York,  in  1898, 
and  contains  further  a  resume  of  the  very 
animated  correspondence  between  Mr.  Kip- 
ling and  Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers,  which 
was  conducted  in  a  series  of  open  letters 
printed  in  The  Athenceum  (London),  in 
1890 — the  ultimate  outcome  of  which  was 
the  publication  in  the  same  journal  of 
**  The  Rhyme  of  The  Three  Captains,"  pos- 
sibly the  strongest  satire  yet  seen  from 
Mr.  Kipling's  pen. 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  151 


The  Man  of  Muscle. 

In  reviewing  a  recent  work  by  one  of  the 
younger  writers,  an  English  paper  calls  it 
undisguised  autobiography.  We  quote  the 
following: 

"  Presently  there  entered  a  tall  young 
man  with  a  long,  thin  face,  curtained  on 
each  side  with  enormous  masses  of  black 
hair — like  a  slip  of  the  young  moon  glim- 
mering through  a  pine  wood.  At  the  same 
nioment  there  entered,  as  if  by  design,  his 
very  antithesis,  a  short,  firmly  built,  clerk- 
ly fellow,  with  a  head  like  a  billiard-ball 
in  need  of  a  shave,  a  big  brown  moustache, 
and  enormous  spectacles. 

"  That,"  said  the  publisher,  referring  to 
the  moon-in-the-pine-wood  young  man,  "  is 
our  young  apostle  of  sentiment,  our  new 
man  of  feeling,  the  best-hated  man  we 
have,  and  the  other  is  our  young  apostle  of 
blood.  He  is  all  for  muscle  and  brutality 
— and  he  makes  all  the  money.     It  is  one 


152  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

of  our  many  fashions  just  now  to  sing, 
'  Britons  and  Brutality.'  But  my  impres- 
sion is  that  our  young  man  of  feeling  will 
have  his  day — though  he  will  have  to  wait 
for  it.  He  would  hasten  it  if  he  would 
cut  his  hair;  but  that  he  says  he  will  never 
do." 

Is  this  log-rolling?  If  not — and  it  ap- 
pears to  be  of  a  new  variety,  at  any  rate — 
what  is  it? 

A   Protest. 

{From  the  London  Academy.) 

Here  we  sit  in  a  thoughtful  row. 
Conning  the  wonderful  things  you  know — 
Grades  and  switches  and  loco-brakes, 
Upper-deck  stringers  and  garboard-strakes, 
Roaring  scuppers,  full  furnace-draught, 
Thrustblock,  cylinder,  flawed  tailshaft. 
We  have  struggled,  in  very  deed. 
Master,  thy  tale  is  hard  to  read. 

All  your  talk  we  have  ever  heard 
Uttered  by  bat  or  beast  or  bird, 


A  Kipling  Note  Book 153 

Hide  or  fin,  or  scale  or  feather, 
Jabbered  at  high  speed  and  all  together — 
Give  us  that  over  and  over  again, 
But  don't  make  machinery  talk  like  men. 
Yea,  by  our  aching  heads  we  plead, 
Master,  these  tales  are  hard  to  read. 

Then  hear  our  fervent  prayer,  and  as  you're 
strong  forswear 
These  arid  technicalities  your  stylo  slings, 
Drop  over  in  your  wake  hotbox  and  garboard 
strake — 
Be  sure,  as  we  are  sure,  you're  fit  for  better 
things. 

Labouchere's   Retort. 

Henri  Labouchere,  in  Truth,  replied  in 
a  parody  to  Rudyard  Kipling's  poem 
"  The  White  Man's  Burden  "  as  follows : 

Pile  on  the  brown  man's  burden, 

To  gratify  your  greed  ; 
Go,  clear  away  the  ' '  niggers  " 

Who  progress  would  impede  ; 
Be  very  stem,  for  truly 

'Tis  useless  to  be  mild 


154  ^  Kipling  Note  Book 

With  new-caught,  sullen  peoples, 
Half  devil  and  half  child. 

Pile  on  the  brown  man's  burden, 

And  if  ye  rouse  his  hate, 
Meet  his  old-fashioned  reasons 

With  Maxims  up  to  date  ; 
With  shells  and  dum-dum  bullets, 

A  hundred  times  make  plain 
The  brown  man's  loss  must  ever 

Imply  the  white  man's  gain. 

Pile  on  the  brown  man's  burden, 

Compel  him  to  be  free  ; 
Let  all  your  manifestoes 

Reek  with  philanthropy, 
And  if  with  heathen  folly 

He  dares  your  will  dispute, 
Then  in  the  name  of  freedom 

Don't  hesitate  to  shoot. 

Pile  on  the  brown  man's  burden. 

And  if  his  cry  be  sore. 
That  surely  need  not  irk  you, 

Ye've  driven  slaves  before  ; 
Seize  on  his  ports  and  pastures, 

The  fields  his  people  tread  ; 
Go,  make  from  them  your  living. 

And  mark  them  with  his  dead. 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  1 5  5 

Pile  on  the  brown  man's  burden, 

Nor  do  not  deem  it  hard 
If  you  should  gain  the  rancor 

Of  those  ye  yearn  to  guard  ; 
The  screaming  of  your  Eagle 

Will  drown  the  victim's  sob — 
Go  on  through  fire  and  slaughter, 

There's  dollars  in  the  job. 

Pile  on  the  brown  man's  burden, 

And  through  the  world  proclaim 
That  ye  are  freedom's  agents — 

There's  no  more  paying  game  ; 
And  should  your  own  past  history 

Straight  in  your  teeth  be  thrown, 
Retort  that  independence 

Is  good  for  whites  alone. 

Pile  on  the  brown  man's  burden, 

With  equity  have  done, 
Weak,  antiquated  scruples 

Their  squeamish  course  have  run  ; 
And  though  'tis  freedom's  banner 

You're  waving  in  the  van, 
Reserve  for  home  consumption 

The  sacred  "  Rights  of  Man." 

And  if  by  chance  ye  falter, 
Or  lag  along  the  course  ; 


156  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

If,  as  the  blood  flows  freely, 
Ye  feel  some  slight  remorse, 

Hie  ye  to  Rudyard  Kipling, 
Imperialism's  prop, 

And  bid  him  for  your  comfort 
Turn  on  his  Jingo  stop. 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  i  ^J 

The  Valley  of  the 

Shadow  of  Death. 

Within  a  short  time  after  Mr.  Kipling's 
arrival  in  the  United  States,  in  the  winter 
of  1898,  he  fell  a  prey  to  the  dread  disease, 
pneumonia. 

His  illness  attracted  a  great  deal  of  at- 
tention throughout  the  world.  The  latest 
bulletins  of  the  doctors  were  published 
broadcast  in  the  English,  American,  and 
colonial  press,  and  the  illness  of  the  fa- 
mous writer  became  the  uppermost  topic 
of  conversation.  The  hotel  where  he  lay 
ill  was  besieged  by  reporters,  and  New 
York  papers  chronicled  the  smallest  of  de- 
tails, real  or  imaginary,  which  they  could 
glean  or  invent  regarding  the  patient. 
Telegrams  of  condolence  and  inquiry  from 
all  parts  of  the  world  were  daily  received 
by  Mr.  Kipling's  family,  among  these 
being  a  message  of  sympathy  and  admira- 
tion for  the  poet  from  the  German  Emperor. 

During  this  critical    time    the    London 


158  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

Mail^  in  a  terse  leaderette,  said  "  The  eyes 
of  two  great  nations  are  still  fixed  upon  the 
sick-room  in  New  York  where  Rudyard 
Kipling  lies  battling  with  death.  The 
prayers  of  all  will  go  up  for  his  recovery. 
Never,  perhaps,  in  any  generation  has  the 
illness  of  a  man  of  letters  been  followed 
with  such  eager  attention,  and  this  is  be- 
cause he  has  come  to  be  regarded  as  a 
great  national  and  spiritual  force.  We 
cannot  afford  to  lose  him,  and  that  is  the 
sober  truth."  It  was  with  feelings  of  in- 
tense relief  that  the  news  was  received  in 
England,  early  in  March,  that  Mr.  Kipling 
was  practically  out  of  danger,  and  that  no 
further  bulletins  would  be  issued. 

A  few  days  afterward  (March  6th)  the 
general  joy  was  overclouded  by  the  re- 
ceipt of  the  news  that  Mr.  Kipling's  eld- 
est daughter,  Josephine,  aged  six  years,  had 
succumbed  to  the  deadly  pneumonia  which 
her  father  had  so  successfully  combated, 
Mr,  Kipling's  younger  daughter,  Elsie, 
aged   three,    had   also    been    seized    with 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  159 

pneumonia,  and  both  daughters  were  be- 
lieved to  be  progressing  fairly  well  toward 
recovery.  Josephine's  death  was  therefore 
somewhat  sudden.  It  occurred  at  the 
house  of  Miss  Deforest,  to  which  she  was 
removed  when  first  taken  ill.  Owing  to 
Mr.  Kipling's  weak  condition  the  sad  tid- 
ings were  not  conveyed  to  him  until  some 
time  afterward.  The  remains  were  cre- 
mated at  Freshpond  Cemetery,  near  New 
York,  on  the  8th  March. 

The  following  lines  by  Canon  Rawnsley 
appeared  in  The  Westminster  Gazette  a 
few  days  after  the  death  of  Mr.  Kipling's 
child,  and  before  he  was  made  aware  of  the 
event: 

IN    MEMORIAM. 

Josephine  Kipling,        New  York,  March  6th. 

Let  him  not  wake  from  dream. 

For  in  his  dream  a  child 

With  sweet,  angelic  face, 

His  eldest  born. 

Did  more  ethereal  seem  ; 

With  lovelier  grace 

She  looked  on  him  and  smiled 

From  heaven  this  morn. 


1 6o  A  Kipling  Note  Book 


Sleep  on  !  for  sleep  is  kind  ; 
Why  should  the  dreamer  wake. 
Seeing  bis  flower  is  dead, 
The  nestling  gone  ? 
And  if  he  wake  to  find 
His  darling  fled, 
His  harp  his  heart  must  break. 
Let  him  dream  on  ! 


Mr.  Kipling's  Thanks- 
giving Encyclical. 

While  convalescing  from  his  illness, 
Mr.  Kipling  gave  out  the  following  to  the 
press : 

Hotel  Grenoble,  Easter  Day,  1899. 

Dear  Sir:  Will  you  allow  me  through 
your  columns  to  attempt  some  acknowledg- 
ment of  the  wonderful  sympathy,  affection, 
and  kindness  shown  toward  me  during  my 
recent  illness,  as  well  as  the  unfailing 
courtesy  that  controlled  its  expression?  I 
am  not  strong  enough  to  answer  letters  in 
detail,  so  I  must  take  this  means  of  thank- 
ing as  humbly  as  sincerely  the  countless 
people  of  good-will  throughout  the  world 
who  have  put  me  under  a  debt  I  can  never 
hope  to  repay.     Faithfully  yours, 

RuDYARD  Kipling. 


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lyard  Kipling 

sr  the  original  painting  by  the  Hon.  John  Collier 


Some  Contributions  to  a  Bibli- 
ography of  and  about  Rud- 
yard  Kipling 


September,  i8g^ 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  1 6  3 

Some  Contributions  to  a  Bibli- 
ography of  the  Works  of 
Rudyard  Kipling 

Schoolboy  Lyrics.  First  edition.  188 1. 
Lahore:  The  Civil  and  Military 
Gazette.     i6mo,  pp.  46. 

Echoes.  By  two  writers  (Rudyard  Kip- 
ling and  Alice  M  (?)  Kipling),  First 
edition,  Lahore:  1884.  The  Civil 
and  Military  Gazette  Press.     8vo, 

Quartette.  The  Christmas  Annual  of 
The  Civil  and  Military  Gazette,  By 
Four  Anglo-Indian  Writers.  First 
edition.  1885.  Lahore:  The  Civil 
and  Military  Gazette.  8vo.  (The 
"  four  Anglo-Indian  writers"  were  Kip- 
ling, his  father,  mother,  and  sister.) 

On  Her  Majesty's  Service  Only.  De- 
partmental Ditties  and  Other  Verses. 


164  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

To  all  Heads  of  Departments  and  All 
Anglo-Indians.  Rudyard  Kipling, 
Assistant,  Department  of  Public  Jour- 
nalism. First  edition.  1886.  Lahore: 
The  Civil  and  Military  Gazette.  Ob- 
long 8vo.  (Two  subsequent  editions 
of  this  book  were  issued  in  India  be- 
fore the  appearance  of  the  first  London 
edition.) 

Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills.  First  edi- 
tion. 1888.  Calcutta:  Thacker, 
Spink  &  Co. ;  London :  Thacker  & 
Co.     8vo. 

Soldiers  Three.  A  collection  of  stories 
setting  forth  certain  passages  in  the 
lives  and  adventures  of  Private  Ter- 
ence Mulvaney,  Stanley  Ortheris,  and 
John  Learoyd.  Done  into  type  and 
edited  by  Rudyard  Kipling.  8vo. 
1888.  Allahabad:  The  Pioneer  Press. 
No.  I.  of  A.  H.  Wheeler  &  Co.'s  In- 
dian Railway  Library.  Gray  paper 
wrapper.     Pp.  97. 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  165 

The  Story  of  the  Gadsbys  :  A  Tale 
Without  A  Plot.  First  edition.  8vo. 
1888.  Allahabad:  A.  H.  Wheeler  & 
Co.  No.  2  of  A.  H.  Wheeler  &  Co.'s 
Indian  Railway  Library.  Gray  paper 
wrapper.     Pp.  100. 

In  Black  and  White.  First  edition. 
8vo.  1888.  Allahabad:  A.  H. 
Wheeler  &  Co.  No.  3  of  A.  H.  Wheel- 
er &  Co's  Indian  Railway  Library. 
Gray  paper  wrapper.     Pp.  106. 

Under  the  Deodars.  First  edition.  8vo. 
i888.  Allahabad:  A.  H.  Wheeler  & 
Co.  No.  4  of  AH.  Wheeler  &  Co.'s 
Indian  Railway  Library.  Gray  paper 
wrapper.     Pp.  106. 

The  Phantom  'Rickshaw,  and  Other 
Tales.  First  edition.  8vo.  1888. 
Allahabad:  A.  H.  Wheeler  &  Co. 
No.  5  of  A.  H.  Wheeler  &  Co.'s  In- 
dian Railway  Library.  Gray  paper 
wrapper.     Pp.  104. 


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Wee  Willie  Winkie,  and  Other  Child 
Stories.  First  edition.  8vo.  1888. 
Allahabad:  A.  H.  Wheeler  &  Co. 
No.  6  of  A.  H.  Wheeler  &  Co.'s  In- 
dian Railway  Library.  Gray  paper 
wrapper.     Pp.  98. 

The  Courting  of  Dinah  Shadd,  and  Oth- 
er Stories.  With  a  biographical 
sketch  of  Rudyard  Kipling  by  An- 
drew Lang,  and  portrait.  Harper 
&  Bros.      1890.      izmo,  pp.  182. 

Departmental  Ditties,  and  Other 
Verses.  Fourth  edition.  With  ad- 
ditional poems.  1890.  Calcutta: 
Thacker,  Spink  &  Co. ;  London :  F. 
W.  Thacker  &  Co. ;  Bombay :  Thacker 
&  Co.     8vo. 

Departmental  Ditties,  and  Other 
Verses.  Fifth  edition.  1891.  Cal- 
cutta: Thacker,  Spink  &  Co.;  Lon- 
don :  F.  W.  Thacker  &  Co. ;  Bombay : 
Thacker  &  Co.,  Limited. 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  167 

The  City  of  Dreadful  Night.  First 
edition.  (Suppressed.)  Allahabad. 
1890. 

The  City  of  Dreadful  Night,  and  Oth- 
er Places  Depicted.  1891.  Alla- 
habad :  A.  H.  Wheeler  &  Co.     8vo. 

The  Smith  Administration.  First  edi- 
tion. (Suppressed.)  Allahabad,  1891. 
8vo. 

Departmental  Ditties.  Sixth  edition. 
189 1.  Calcutta:  Thacker,  Spink  & 
Co.;  London:  W.  Thacker  &  Co.; 
Bombay:  Thacker  &  Co.,  Limited. 
8vo.     (With  a  glossary  added.) 

The  City  of  Dreadful  Night.  First 
English  edition.  Allahabad  and  Lon- 
don, 1 89 1.     8vo. 

The  Light  That  Failed.  First  edition. 
1891.  London  and  New  York:  Mac- 
millan  &  Co.  8vo.  (The  first 
American  issue  of  this  work  was  Lip- 


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pincott's  Magazine  for  January,  1891 — 
the  text  slightly  varying — notably  the 
ending — from  that  of  the  English  edi- 
tion.) 

Life's  Handicap  :  Being  Stories  of  Mine 
Own  People.  Firfet  edition.  189 1. 
London  and  New  York:  Macmillan 
&  Co.     Svo. 

Letters  of  Marque.  Vol.  I.  First  edi- 
tion. 1891.  London:  Sampson, 
Low,  Marston  &  Co.  8vo.  (Sup- 
pressed.) 

Letters  of  Marque.  1891.  Allahabad: 
A.  H.  Wheeler  &  Co.  8vo.  (Sup- 
pressed by  author  and  publisher  al- 
most immediately  after  publication.) 

Wee  Willie  Winkie,  and  Other  Stories. 
First  edition.  1891.  Allahabad:  A. 
H.  Wheeler  &  Co. ;  London :  Samp- 
son, Low,  Marston,  Searle  &  Riving- 
ton.  Limited.     8vo. 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  169 

Barrack-Room  Ballads,  and  Other 
Verses.  First  edition.  1892.  Meth- 
uen  &  Co.  8vo.  (Thirty  copies  on 
Japan  paper  and  225  on  large  paper.) 

American    Notes.       189  i.      New    York, 
Paper  covers.     i6mo,  pp.  160. 

The  Naulahka:  A  Story  of  the  West 
AND  THE  East.  By  Rudyard  Kipling 
and  Wolcott  Balestier.  First  edition. 
1892.  London:  William  Heinemann. 
8vo.  (An  edition  with  rhymed  chap- 
ter headings  was  issued  in  America  by 
Macmillan  &  Co.  in  the  same  year.) 

Ballads  and  Barrack-Room  Ballads. 
1892.  London  and  New  York:  Mac- 
millan &  Co.     8vo. 

Detroit  Free  Press  Christmas  Number. 
Price,  6d.  The  Record  of  Badalia 
Herodsfoot.  By  Rudyard  Kipling. 
"One  Day's  Courtship."  By  Luke 
Sharp  (Robert  Burr).  First  edition. 
London,  1893.      (Kipling's  story  was 


lyo  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

published    later    in    "  Many    Inven- 
tions.") 

Many  Inventions.  First  edition.  1893. 
London  and  New  York:  Macmillan 
&  Co. 

Ballads  avd  Barrack-Room  Ballads. 
1893.  London  and  New  York :  Mac- 
millan &  Co.  8vo.  (With  additional 
poems  not  in  edition  of  1892.) 

My  First  Book.  First  edition.  1894. 
London:  Chatto  &  Windus.  8vo. 
(With  chapter  by  Rudyard  Kipling.) 

The  Jungle  Book.  First  Series.  First 
edition.  1894.  London  and  New 
York:  Macmillan  &  Co.     8vo. 

The  Second  Jungle  Book.  First  edition. 
1895.  London  and  New  York:  Mac- 
millan &  Co.     8vo. 

Out  of  India  :  Things  I  Saw,  and  Failed 
TO  See,  in  Certain  Days  and  Nights 
at   Jeypore  and  Elsewhere.     First 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  171 

edition.  1895.  New  York:  G.  W. 
Dillingham  &  Co.  8vo.  (First  edi- 
tion suppressed — a  copy  having  sold 
at  auction  for  $12.  A  reissue  of  this 
book  with  the  omission  of  certain  ma- 
terial contained  in  the  first  edition  was 
afterward  offered  to  the  public.) 

Soldier  Tales.  1896.  London:  Macmil- 
lan  &  Co.     8vo. 

The  Seven  Seas.  First  edition.  1896. 
London :  Methuen  &  Co.  8vo.  (Thirty 
copies  on  Japan  paper,  and  150  on 
hand-made  paper.)  New  York:  D. 
Appleton  &  Co.     8vo,  paper. 

Captains  Courageous:  A  Story  of  the 
Grand  Banks.  First  edition.  1897. 
London:  Macmillan  &  Co.;  New 
York:  The  Century  Company.  8vo. 
(First  appeared  serially  in  America  in 
McClure's  Magazine  with  illustra- 
tions by  I.  W.  Taber.) 


172  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

Steve  Brown's  Bunyip,  and  Other  Sto- 
ries. By  J.  A.  Barry,  Fifth  edition. 
1897.  London :  Macqueen  &  Co.  8vo. 
(Introductory  verses  by  Kipling.) 

An  Alphabet  of  Twelve  Sports.  First 
edition.  1897.  London:  William 
Heinemann,  4to.  (Illustrated  by  Wil- 
liam Nicholson.) 

A  Kipling  Calendar  (1899).  Illustra- 
tions and  verses.  With  frontispiece. 
13  leaves  quarto.  1,000  copies.  Also 
limited  Japan  paper  edition.  New 
York,  1898. 

The  Vampire.  (With  decorations  by 
Blanche  McManus  and  frontispiece 
from  the  painting  by  Philip  Burne- 
Jones  which  appeared  in  the  New 
Gallery,  London  1897.)  New  York: 
M.  F.  Mansfield  &  Co.      1898. 

Recessional.  (With  decorations  by 
Blanche     McManus.)        8vo,     paper. 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  173 

New  York:    M.   F.   Mansfield  &  Co. 
1897. 

Departmental  Ditties.  1898.  London: 
Thacker.     8vo. 

Barrack-Room  Ballads  and  Verses  and 
Departmental  Ditties,  and  Other 
Verses.  2  vols.,  i6mo.  (Illustrated 
by  Blanche  McManus.)  1898.  New 
York :  M.  F.  Mansfield  &  Co. 

Collectanea:  Being  Certain  Reprint 
Verses  as  Written  by  Rudyard  Kip- 
ling. 1898.  New  York:  M.  F. 
Mansfield  &  Co.  i6mo.  (Contains 
"The  Inspiration,"  "The  Vampire," 
"  Mandalay,"  "  Recessional,"  and 
"  The  Three  Captains."  ) 

The  Day's  Work.  First  edition.  1898. 
New  York:  Doubleday  &  McClure 
Co.  8vo.  (Nearly  all  the  stories 
therein  having  appeared  serially. 
Earlier  than  the  first  English  edi- 
tion.) 


174  ^  Kipling  Note  Book 

The  Writings  in  Prose  and  Verse  of 
RuDYARD  Kipling,  Outward  Bound 
edition.  New  York:  Charles  Scrib- 
ner's  Sons.  Twelve  volumes.  Other 
volumes  announced,  to  be  included 
later:  " The  Day's  Work,"  "  From  Sea 
to  Sea,  Part  I.,"  "  Early  Verse,"  and 
"  From  Sea  to  Sea,  Part  II.,"  "  Stalky 
&  Co." 

A  Fleet  in  Being.  8vo,  paper  wrapper. 
London,  1898.  Also  in  cloth.  (First 
appeared  serially  in  Morning  Post, 
London. 

Departmental  Ditties.  With  illustra- 
tions by  Dudley  Cleaver.  Crown  8vo. 
1899.  London:  George  Newnes, 
Limited. 

Departmental  Ditties.  "  Cheap  popular 
edition,"  paper  wrapper.  With  por- 
trait. Crown  8vo.  6d.  1899.  Lon- 
don :  George  Newnes,  Limited. 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  175 

The  Burning  of  the  "  Sarah  Sands." 
Black  and  White,  Christmas  number, 
1898  (London).  Youth's  Companion, 
Christmas  number,  1898  (Boston). 

Stalky  &  Co.  Serial  publication  in 
Windsor  Magazine,  London,  1899. 
McClure's  Magazine,  New  York, 
1899.  (With  Illustrations  by  L.  Raven 
Hill.) 

From  Sea  to  Sea.  Letters  of  travel,  con- 
taining "  American  Notes,"  "  Letters  of 
Marque,"  "  City  of  Dreadful  Night," 
etc.,  rewritten  and  revised  by  the  au- 
thor. 1899.  New  York;  Doubleday 
&  McClure  Co. 

Departmental  Ditties  and  Ballads  and 
Barrack-Room  Ballads.  The  first 
authorized  American  edition.  Doub- 
leday &  McClure  Co.  New  York, 
1899. 

The  Cruise  of  the  "  Cachalot."  By  F. 
W.  Bullen.     (Introductory  letter  to  the 


176  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

author  by  Rudyard  Kipling.)    London 
and  New  York,  1898. 

Rudyard  Kipling:  The  Man  and  His 
Work,  By  G.  F,  Monkshood.  "  With 
a  prefacial  note  in  the  form  of  a  char- 
acteristic letter*'  by  Rudyard  Kipling.) 

Portraits  of  Rudyard  Kipling. 

The    principal     portraits    of    Rudyard 

Kipling  are: 

Painting  by  Hon.  John  Collier,  exhibited 
New  Gallery,  London,  1891.  Half- 
tone reproductions  of  above,  Mc- 
Clure's  Magazine  and  Review  of 
Reviews.  Half  tone  (hand  engraved), 
Century,  June,  1899. 

Etching  by  William  Strang,  Unicom 
Press,  London,  1898.  Limited  edition. 
Reproduction  of  same.  New  York 
Herald  and  Literary  Digest,  1899. 

Cabinet  Size  Photograph  by  Hollyer  (Lon- 


;: 


A  Kipling  Note  Book  177 

don).     Numerous  half-tone  and  photo- 
gravure reproductions  of  same. 

Portrait,  with  Indian  accessories.  Drawn 
by  Fletcher  M.  Ranson.  Used  as  a 
poster  for  Book  Buyer,  1896. 

Etching  or  photogravure  from  a  late  photo. 
Used  as  frontispiece  Outward  Bound 
edition. 

Litho.  portrait  by  William  Nicholson,  1897. 

Some  Books  About 

Rudyard   Kipling 

A  Kipling  Birthday  Book.  London  and 
New  York,  1897. 

Thro'  the  Year  with  Kipling.     Boston, 

1898. 
Rudyard  Kipling:    The  Man  and  His 

Work.     By    W.     J.     Clarke    (G.    F. 

Monkshood).     London,  1899. 

A  Ken  of  Kipling.  By  Will  M.  Clemens. 
New  York,  1899. 


178  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

A   Kipling    Note-Book.       In    12    parts. 
New  York,  1899. 

KiPLiNGiANA.      With    illustrations.      New 
York,  1899. 

RuDYARD     Kipling:       A     Biographical 

Sketch.      By  Charles  Eliot    Norton. 

Limited  to   100  copies.      New  York, 

1899. 
Mr.    Kipling's   Stories.     (In   Essays   in 

Little.)      By     Andrew     Lang,      New 

York,  1 891. 

The  Religion  of  Mr.  Kipling.     By  W. 
B.  Parker.     i6mo.     New  York,  1899. 

Bibliography   Continued. 

Being  a  check  list  of  the  more  important 
articles  which  have  appeared  in  the  peri- 
odical press  regarding  Rudyard  Kipling 
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Adachi    Kinnosuke.     Japanese  View  of 
Kipling  (A).     Arena,  June,  1899. 


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Adams,  Francis.  Mr.  Rudyard  Kipling's 
Verse.  Fortnightly  Review,  Nov., 
189 1 ;  same  article,  Eclectic  Mag., 
Jan.,  1892. 

Adams,  John  D.  Rudyard  Kipling.  Book 
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Bishop,  William  H.  Mr.  Kipling's 
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Blake,  J,  P.  The  Art  of  Rudyard  Kip- 
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Feb.,  1896. 

BosDARi,  Alessandro.  Rudyard  Kipling, 
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Bowles,  G.  S.  Navy  to  Mr.  Kipling, 
(The)  :  poem.     Academy,  Oct.,  1898. 

Brandl,  a.  Thomas  Hardy  and  Rudyard 
Kipling.     Cosmopolis,  May,  1897. 

Captains  Courageous.  Review  of,  in 
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Cope,  Goring.  Books  of  Rudyard  Kip- 
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Dawson,  Rev.  W.  J.  On  Rudyard  Kip- 
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Dole,  Nathan  H.  Boy  "Who  Found 
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Genung,  George  F.  Apocalypse  of  Kip- 
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1899. 

Gilman,  Frank  G.  Rudyard  Kipling  as 
a  Poet.     Arena,  Sept.,  1898. 

GossE,  Edmund,  Rudyard  Kipling. 
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Graz,    Friedrich.       Beitrage     zu     einer 


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Studien,  Jan.,  1898. 

Graz,  Friedrich.  Contribution  to  a 
Critique  of  Rudyard  Kipling,  trans- 
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15th  April,  1899. 

H.,  W.  E.  New  Kipling  (The).  Review 
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Hale,  Edward  E.,  Jr.  Review  of  Kip- 
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HowELLS,  William  D.  Laureate  of  the 
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HowELLS,  William  D.  New  Poetry 
(The).  North  American  Review, 
May,  1899. 

Imitation  Sincerest  Form  of  Flattery. 
Cornhill,  vol.  xv. 

Johnson,  Lionel.  Barrack-Room  Ballads, 
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Johnson,  Lionel.  Life's  Handicap,  Be- 
ing Stories  of  Mine  Own  People. 
Criticism  of.  Academy,  17th  Oct., 
1891. 

Johnson,  Lionel.  Light  That  Failed 
(The).  Criticism  of.  Academy,  4th 
April,  1891. 

Kipling- S h akespeare  Correspondence. 
Spectator,  July,  1898. 

Lanier,  Charles  D.  Sketch  of  Rudyard 
Kipling  (A),  Review  of  Reviews 
(N.  Y.),  Feb.,  1897. 

Lanier,  Henry  W.  Kipling's  "Cynical 
Jingoism "  toward  the  Brown  Man. 
Dial,  i6th  June,  1899. 

Livingston,  Luther  S.  Kipling's  Sup- 
pressed Works.  Bookman  (N.  Y.), 
March,  1899. 

Logan,  A.  M.  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills. 
Review  of.     Nation,  nth  Dec,  1890. 


184  A  Kipling  Note  Book 

McCuLLOCH,  H.,  Jr.  Impressions  of  Rud- 
yard  Kipling.  Harvard  Monthly, 
vol  i. 

McKnight,  George  H.  Kipling's  View 
of  Americans.  Bookman  (N.  Y.), 
April,  1898. 

Mr.  Rudvard  Kipling's  Tales.  Quarterly 
Review,  July,  1892. 

Marshall,  Henry  R.  Rudyard  Kipling 
and  Racial  Instinct.  Century,  July, 
1899. 

Maurice,  Arthur  B.  Kipling's  Men. 
Bookman  (N.  Y.),  Dec,  1898. 

Maurice,  Arthur  B.  Kipling's  Verse- 
people.  Bookman  (N.  Y.),  March, 
1899. 

Maurice,  Arthur  B.  Kipling's  Women. 
Bookman  (N.  Y.),  Jan.,  1899. 

Mercer,    Edmund,     A    Consideration   of 


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Rudyard  Kipling.     Manchester  Quar- 
terly, July,  1895. 

Meynell,  Alice.  The  Soldier's  Poet. 
Merry  England,  April,  1893. 

Miller,  J.  O.  New  Poet  of  the  English 
Race  (The).  Canadian  Mag.,  March, 
1897. 

Mortimer,  F.  C.  Day's  Work  (The). 
Review  of.     Book  Buyer,  Nov.,  1898. 

MuLLiN,  E.  H.  Stevenson,  Kipling,  and 
Anglo  -  Saxon  Imperialism.  Book 
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Review  of.     Dial,  ist  Feb.,  1897. 

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article,  Living  Age,  12th  March,  1898. 


Index 

PAGE 

Apologia i 

A  Brief  Biography  to  Date  ....  3 

A  Biographical  Note 6 

A  Kipling  Romance 7 

Kipling's  First  Book 8 

The  First  Indian  Editions  ....  9 
An  Indian  Newspaper  Office       .      .       .11 

Departmental  Ditties 12 

Out  of  India 14 

Kipling  on  Stevenson 16 

Kipling's  Early  Books 17 

Suppressed  Works 17 

Kipling  on  the  Soudan 20 

Introductions  to  Indian  Editions    .       .  23 

Some  Prefaces  to  Indian  Editions    .      .  23 

Preface  to  "Soldiers  Three"  ...  23 
Dedication  to  "  Soldiers  Three  "  .  -23 
Preface  to  "  Under  the  Deodars  "   .       .24 

Preface  TO  " The  Phantom  'Rickshaw"  .  26 
Fac-Simile  of  Title   Page  "  Under  the 

Deodars  " 27 

Contents  First  Edition  "  Departmental 

Ditties  " 28 

"  American  Notes  " 29 


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Andrew  Lang  on  Kipling 

Some  Early  Press  Opinions 

Of  "Barrack-Room  Ballads" 

Tommy  Atkins   . 

Kipling  in  London 

Kipling  a  Moral  Force 

From  "American  Notes" 

Kipling's  Best  Story    . 

'Naulahka" 

A  South  African  View 

Of  "Letifrs  of  Marque" 

"The  City  of  Dreadful  Night" 

From  a  German  PoiNr  of  View 

A  French  Opinion 

Versatility         .... 

A  Prophecy        .... 

The  Laureateship  . 

The  Ruddikipple    . 

Kipling's  Women 

Of  Chapter  Headings 

As  A  Balladist 

His  Hobby — Children  . 

Prices  for  Manuscript 

Kipling's  Business  Sagacity 

The  American  Girl 

The  Bohemian  Club 

"  Ballad  of  the  East  and  W 

A  Yale  Literary  Club 

The  Case  of  the  "  Cantab  " 

The  Horsmonden  Affair  . 

Clarke  Russell's  Appreciation 


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INDEX. —  Continued 


Mr.  Kipling  a.nd  the  Royal  Nav^' 

"A  Fleet  in  Being  '     .       .       . 

Mr.  Kipling  and  Medici.ne 

"  Manchester  Goods  and  Poetry 

The  Poet  of  E.nergv     . 

The  Literature  ok  Action 

Expansion  and  Imperialism     . 

The  Man  Who  Is    . 

Some  Quotations     .... 

A  Compliment  from  Mr.  Kipling 

Ships,  Seas,  and  Sailors    . 

The  New  Kipling   .... 

A  Coincidence  or  a  Satire 

Kipling's  English  Hijme    . 

The  Elms,  Rottingdkan 

A  Doubtful  Prophecy 

Kipling's  Rebuke    .... 

Difficult  to  Translate     . 

Kipling  on   Shakespeare    . 

An  Italian  Review 

A  Voice  from  South  Africa 

'•The  Dipsey  Chantey" 

The  Minor   Poet     .... 

Of  Sympathy 

Of  Empire-Building 

Kipling — Maupassant   . 

Writers  Who  Have  Influenced 

From  Robert  Louis  Stevenson 

A  Singer  of  Songs 

Some  Ditties  An.\lyzei> 

•■  Sekgeant  What's  Hi s-N am e" 


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INDEX.—  Continued 


England,  France,  and  America 

The  Original  of  Mulvaney 

A  Later  Comment 

Mark  Twain  on  Kipling 

Kipling  (Limited)    . 

The  Royal  Academy     . 

A  Soldier's  Compliment 

The  Emperor  of  Germany 

"Our  Lady  of  the  Snows" 

The  Small  Boy  of  Quebec 

"  The  Blind  Bug"  . 

The  Kipling   Boom 

The  New  Poetry     . 

Literary  Productiveness 

The  Kipling  Collector 

Most  Famous  Man  in  the  Wo 

"  Academy  "  Anecdotes 

The  Law  of  the  Jungle 

Imperial  Majesty    . 

J.  Rudyard  Kipling 

The  Ten-Inch  Gun 

Courting  of  Dinah  Shadd 

The  Man  of  Muscle     . 

A   Protest    .... 

Labouchere's  Retort   . 

The  Valley  of  the  Shadow  of  Death 

Thanksgiving  Encyclical 

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Portraits  of  Rudyard  Kipling 

Books  about  Rudyard  Kipling 

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